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I’m gonna give him a pass - a (apparently) single incidence of consensual sex with a 16 year old 30 years ago and nothing else on his record.....how many of us would be unemployable if everything we ever did was held against us ...

Um, a single incident of several years! Of him abusing a child under his care? It's not like it was just some random girl he knew, it was a 14 year old in his youth group, of which he was the priest! And it took two years of this before he managed to get her pregnant, and only left the priesthood FOUR YEARS after that! This is just like many other cases of sexual abuse: trusted person with power/authority over the one getting abused. That type of relationship is not simply 'consensual'.

DeShan left the priesthood in 1994, four years after he impregnated a teenage girl in a church youth group he had allegedly been sexually abusing since she was 14