Mass. priest gets jail sentence
New Bedford, Massachusetts --
After hearing an astoundingly emotional impact statement from the victim, and later determining the Rev. Donald Bowen is still minimizing his behavior, Superior Court Judge Gary Nickerson sentenced the Diocese of Fall River priest to two years behind bars and 10 years of probation Friday.
Bowen, 67, an Attleboro native, pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with indecent assault and battery of a person under 14 and unnatural and lascivious acts on a person under 16.
The plea came three years after he was indicted and more than three decades after he systematically ruined the life of a young Bristol County girl by consistently forcing her to perform oral sex on him.
The victim, Catherine Murphy, 50, was in court Friday and tore through a lengthy impact statement that left many of her supportive friends and family members in tears. She gave reporters permission to use her name.
"The abuse has colored every aspect of my adult life. All the problems I have has an adult can be traced back to the abuse I endured as a child," Murphy said. "It was all about psychological and physical control. I was forced to perform oral sex on this monster, and it scared the hell out of me.
"I blamed myself, even though I now know I was brainwashed by this perverted man."
The former National Honor Society student at Bishop Feehan High School fought back tears as she pressed on through her obviously cathartic statement to the court, saying she prayed daily to be saved from her "nightmare."
Read the article at The Pawtucket Times Dated July 16, 2005
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After hearing an astoundingly emotional impact statement from the victim, and later determining the Rev. Donald Bowen is still minimizing his behavior, Superior Court Judge Gary Nickerson sentenced the Diocese of Fall River priest to two years behind bars and 10 years of probation Friday.
Bowen, 67, an Attleboro native, pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with indecent assault and battery of a person under 14 and unnatural and lascivious acts on a person under 16.
The plea came three years after he was indicted and more than three decades after he systematically ruined the life of a young Bristol County girl by consistently forcing her to perform oral sex on him.
The victim, Catherine Murphy, 50, was in court Friday and tore through a lengthy impact statement that left many of her supportive friends and family members in tears. She gave reporters permission to use her name.
"The abuse has colored every aspect of my adult life. All the problems I have has an adult can be traced back to the abuse I endured as a child," Murphy said. "It was all about psychological and physical control. I was forced to perform oral sex on this monster, and it scared the hell out of me.
"I blamed myself, even though I now know I was brainwashed by this perverted man."
The former National Honor Society student at Bishop Feehan High School fought back tears as she pressed on through her obviously cathartic statement to the court, saying she prayed daily to be saved from her "nightmare."
Read the article at The Pawtucket Times Dated July 16, 2005
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