{"id":5310,"date":"2016-01-21T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2022-04-25T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:43:52","slug":"catholic-guilt-the-lying-scheming-altar-boy-behind-a-lurid-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5310","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Guilt? The Lying, Scheming Altar Boy Behind a Lurid Rape Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=photo><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.newsweek.com\/sites\/www.newsweek.com\/files\/styles\/full\/public\/2016\/01\/15\/0129catholic02.JPG\" width=\"95%\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The psychiatrist isn\u2019t the only person deeply skeptical of Billy Doe and his stories. The detective who led the Philadelphia district attorney\u2019s investigation into Gallagher\u2019s allegations against the priests and teacher also has some disturbing doubts. In a confidential deposition obtained by Newsweek, retired Detective Joseph Walsh was asked on January 29, 2015, about nine significant factual discrepancies in Gallagher\u2019s story. The detective testified that when he questioned Gallagher about those discrepancies, Gallagher usually just sat there and said nothing. Or claimed he was high on drugs at the time. Or told a different story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2016\/01\/29\/billy-doe-altar-boy-sends-four-men-prison-philadelphia-rape-case-417565.html\">article<\/a> by Ralph Cipriano in <em>Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The psychiatrist isn\u2019t the only person deeply skeptical of Billy Doe and his stories. The detective who led the Philadelphia district attorney\u2019s investigation into Gallagher\u2019s allegations against the priests and teacher also has some disturbing doubts. In a confidential deposition obtained by Newsweek, retired Detective Joseph Walsh was asked on January 29, 2015, about nine&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5310\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catholic Guilt? The Lying, Scheming Altar Boy Behind a Lurid Rape Case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9236,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions\/9236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}