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A man sexually assaulted by a priest in Georgia now says it wasn't just
one, but two priests who abused him as a child, He claims the second
priest was a pastor from the Diocese of Charleston .
Our story starts in Savannah, Georgia. “Everybody I knew was Catholic,”
Chris Templeton said, one of five children growing up in Savannah in
the 80s.
“I was 4th generation Irish Catholic in Savannah and we lived in a
neighborhood right across the street from the church.”
His parents were active in Savannah's St. James Catholic Church and
School, a member of the templeton kids attended St. James for 27
straight years.
“There was a six, seven or eight groups of us that all during the
summer went to St. James' field and play football, baseball, and
basketball. All of a sudden, there was a new priest there that had a
Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. He loved coming to watch us,” Templeton
said.
A priest named Wayland Brown. The same Savannah priest who is now
behind bars in South Carolina, serving 20 years for sexually assaulting
children, but not before he met 13-year-old Templeton.
“That’s how it all started. [Brown] would take me to the convenience
store and buy us icees, candy, stuff like that, until it led into
the abuse.”
Abuse that spilled across the South Carolina state line, according to
indictments.
“I was raped in South Carolina so many times.”
Templeton says he has only regained memory of the abuse in the past
four years. In a civil lawsuit, he claims another Charleston priest was
involved in the abuse with Brown, Father Raymond DuMouchel.
“All I could think of was a guy, this Father Ray, Father Ray,”
Templeton recalled. DuMonchel was the pastor at St. Anthony's Mission
Church in Hardeeville, part of the Charleton Catholic Diocese.
“I was raped numerous times between Ray DuMouchel and Wayland
Brown," Templeton says. "Over 60 times."
According to the Charleston Diocese, it became aware of inappropriate
conduct by Father DuMouchel in November 2002, after he retired. The
Diocese suspended him from the ministry.
At one point, DuMouchel faced fondling charges. Prosecutors dropped
them, and he died in 2006.
“What makes Chris’ case unique [...] was the depth of the deceit with
regard to Wayland Brown's abuse of children,” says Mark Tate,
Templeton’s lawyer.
“Can you ever make up for the loss of your youth? Can you ever make
up for the loss of innocence? You can't do that. And we can't wave a
magic wand and go back and make things better. But, we can try to
win a verdict for him."
The Diocese of Charleston filed its answer in the Templeton case on
Monday morning, when it said it will continue to address this lawsuit
in court.
“We have offered Mr. Templeton professional counseling services and
pastoral care through his (South Carolina) attorney, Mr. Gregg
Meyers,” the diocese said in a statement.
Raised in a large Catholic family in Savannah, Chris Templeton chose to
stay in the city he loved. But Templeton believes there were more
victims that have not come forward, who could no longer bear the
reminder and moved away.
Are there more Chris Templetons out there? He believes so:
“There's a bunch, [who] probably want to die, but don’t know how to
kill themselves. They don’t want to get out of bed everyday, or they
are getting high, or they are in prison or getting drunk every day.
They are sad, they are lonely, and they are shameful. Shame and
guilt will destroy you, and there is a lot of that involved when you
are raped as a child.”
Templeton says he now wonders about the boys at his small parochial
school. He says he knows of four or five boys within a grade or two who
committed suicide. Too many, and he wants to know why.
If anyone has information about other or similar crimes, they're asked
to call the District Attorney's Office in Chatham County, Georgia at
912-652-8080.
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