On Thu, Dec 3, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte named the priest who allegedly molested him and several other high school boys, when he was a teenager studying at the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU).
“Duterte tagged the late Fr. Paul Falvey, S.J., one of the Jesuit priests at AdDU when he was still in his first year high school, as the one who sexually molested him,” reports Germelina Lacorte in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Duterte related: ‘“It happened during our generation, two years ahead of us and two years following us. It cost him some P25 million because other victims filed a case, it was a case of fondling—you know what—he did during confession, that’s how we lost our innocence early.”
The report noted: “Duterte, who vowed to keep his mouth shut pending a talk with Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles, explained that he did not file a case because he was still a young boy at that time, and he was afraid.”
Duterte quipped, “Takot kami (We were afraid).”
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