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Sunday, October 30, 2005

I GOT $10 FOR MY CONFIRMATION

Manhattan prep school officials and parents aren't the only ones who hope the NYPD tracks down and arrests a defrocked priest accused of molesting a student.

His son wants him behind bars, too.

"I'd love to see him get caught," Aaron Jacques, 25, the youngest child of school fund-raiser Bruce Jacques, told the Daily News yesterday. "If he really did what they say he did, that would make my day."

Bruce Jacques, 57, is on the run after a male student at the Robert Louis Stevenson School on W. 74th St. claimed the ex-priest sexually assaulted by him in Central Park on Oct. 20.

After the allegation was lodged, school officials discovered Jacques had a sordid past: the Episcopal Church had booted him from the priesthood for allegedly propositioning a 13-year-old boy in 1995.

At the time, Jacques was rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in New Milford, Conn., a married father of two boys.

His son, Aaron, said the scandal tore the family apart. He wasn't speaking to his father by the time his dad walked out of the house in 2002, leaving behind only a note to feed the dog.

"We're just getting over it, but we're all better off without him," said Aaron, who still lives in New Milford. "I couldn't care less about the guy."

His father always denied the allegation - that he'd offered the boy oral sex as a confirmation present - and his family bought his story.

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