Deaf abuse victim: ‘I can’t believe Pope can be so stupid’

STEVEN GEIER says that four times in the mid-1960s, the Rev Lawrence Murphy coaxed the then-14-year-old student into a closet at St John’s School for the Deaf just outside Milwaukee and molested him, using God to justify his actions.

Geier said when he told Murphy what was happening was wrong, the priest replied: “Oh, yes. God sent me. This is confession.”