THE PRIEST NOW IN HIS 80S USED HIS HEARING AID AND WALKER WHILE HIS TRIAL CONTINUED IN AN ALBUQUERQUE COURTROOM TUESDAY. BUT THE FORMER PRIEST … ARTHUR PERRAULT … STARED AT THE TABLE WHILE HIS ACCUSERS TESTIFIED. KOB TV REPORTS ONE MAN TOLD THE COURT PERRAULT TOOK HIM INTO A BEDROOM DURING AN ALTAR BOY’S MEETING IN 1971 AND TOUCHED HIS GENITALS. HE TOLD HIS PARENTS, WHO TOLD HIM TO WRITE A LETTER ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. THAT LETTER HAS BEEN WITH THE CHURCH SINCE 1971.
ANOTHER MAN TALKED ABOUT BEING RAPED NUMEROUS TIMES BY THE FORMER PRIEST. AND A THIRD TOLD THE COURT BEING MOLESTED BY PERRAULT LED TO DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE AND PROBLEMS WITH HIS MARRIAGE.
