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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

WHY MY CHILDREN ARE IN PUBLIC SCHOOL, EXAMPLE 455633

Jackpot priest in D.A.'s perv report

When the Rev. Frank Giliberti won more than $1 million at an Atlantic City casino 17 years ago, the portly priest promised to give it all away.

He funded a pricey remodel of his Wynnefield church, set up a scholarship fund for poor high-schoolers and spread the wealth to other needy causes.

Now, it seems, he was just doing penance.

The retired cleric was one of 63 priests blasted in a report the district attorney released last week detailing decades of sexual abuse by priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Giliberti, now 68 and living in a Darby nursing home for retired priests, is accused of running a so-called anti-masturbation "boot camp" at his Jersey shore house where he walked in on boys as they masturbated. He also allegedly abused at least two boys while he was still a seminarian and another two who were his students at Cardinal O'Hara High School, in Springfield, Delaware County.

A 15-year-old boy in Giliberti's religion class at Cardinal O'Hara High School in Delaware County reported that Giliberti fondled him, gave him beer, encouraged him to masturbate and to expose himself to his sister and offered to have sex with him, according to the report.

The boy later was so ashamed that he set his penis on fire with lighter fluid.

Another allegation involved a 17-year-old O'Hara student who went to Giliberti for guidance as he struggled with his sexuality. The boy claimed Giliberti offered to introduce him to some gay men and also encouraged him to masturbate, according to the report.

Giliberti also is accused of molesting two teenage boys in the late 1960s.

from Philly.com

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