Many molested by support staff - Lured with doughnuts, candy and games of checkers

[The Straight Story]

Many molested by support staff
Clergy: Two brothers tell of abuse in 1970s by school janitor.


SAN DIEGO - The maintenance trailer outside St. Joachim's Elementary School in Costa Mesa looked harmless from the outside, but once the door slammed shut it was hell for Joe and Paul Livingston.

Lured with doughnuts, candy and games of checkers, the boys were repeatedly molested over several years by the church janitor who lived inside.

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Church teachers, sports coaches and even unpaid parochial school volunteers make up as much as 10 percent of the assailants, lawyers say.

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The Livingston boys were 6 and 7 when their mother sent them to Catholic school in the 1970s. She worked several jobs to pay tuition after their father left when Paul was two months old.

Joe, 11 months older, can still see the janitor's face and hands. He also remembers times when the trailer door slammed in his face, leaving him standing outside with his little brother trapped inside.

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