Daniel Neill: "The first [time] Daniel was molested was when Father Gallagher took the boy to buy supplies for a St. Patrick's Day party at school. After buying a disco ball, green party vests, plates, and cups, the priest stopped at his mother's house. There he took the boy upstairs to a pink, frilly bedroom. The priest unbuckled the boy's belt, pulled down his pants, and fondled his genitals. After less than two minutes, Gallagher pulled up the boy's pants and started to leave the room. But as Daniel was refastening his pants, Gallagher returned, pulled the child's pants down again, bent him over at the waist, and stuck his finger in the boy's anus." Daniel committed suicide after the Philadelphia Archdiocese's Review Board told him his claims were not credible.
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