A wealthy Manhattan socialite is planning a $5 million lawsuit against the Catholic Church, claiming his being molested by a priest at age 7 turned him into a homosexual.
J. David Enright IV, now 51, alleges he was molested as a boy at Camp Tekawitha on Lake Luzerne in upstate New York by by Father Joseph Romano, a seminarian counselor at the camp run by the Diocese of Albany.
"I believe that my life would be very different now," Enright told the New York Post. "I'd probably be married, living in Greenwich, with four children in boarding school. Romano bent my life." But $5 Million would help. So much for the old "I was born this way" argument.
Enright, a descendant of Albany's aristocratic Van Rensselaer and de la Grange families, made millions in 1982 as an advertising executive for the Broadway production of "42nd Street."
"I had a completely straight life in business, socially on Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue," he said, adding he did date women in the 1980s. "Then there was the other world, which was slinking around in Greenwich Village gay bars, finding mates."
In addition to Romano, Bishop Howard Hubbard and the Albany Diocese have been named as as defendants in the planned suit.
I don't mean to dismiss true vitims here, but this is out of hand. If a crime has been committed then justice should be served. However, a person does not have the right to review their life after decades have past and blame another person for their failings. This is a slap in the face to those who have suffered in these tragic cases.
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