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	Former Church Volunteer Questions Victim during Trial By Julie Manganis Eagle-Tribune May 27, 2006 http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/15/etstory.pl?-sec-morning+curlewcpy.527 [partial text from Abuse Tracker] SALEM — A 9-year-old boy was forced to answer questions from the admitted pedophile who confessed last year to molesting him, as the man's trial got underway yesterday in Salem Superior Court. Kevin Curlew, 45, a former volunteer for the Mormon Church in Methuen, told police he has a sexual preference for prepubescent boys and warned them, "I should never be around children, period." But yesterday, Curlew, acting as his own lawyer, stood just a few feet from the boy, now 11, trying to shake the child's credibility with jurors and suggesting the boy is lying because he cannot recall specific dates when the incidents occurred — even though Curlew has already confessed to both church officials and the police. It's a scenario made possible after Curlew's first lawyer left the public defender's office and Curlew then decided to represent himself.
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