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REVIVING MEMORIES (Former LI man says he’s relieved, angry over arrest on child porn charges against retired priest he’s accused of abusing him as a child)
Newsday/Bart Jones
Robert Sammarco recalls how the priest would invite him to the beach in Mastic-Shirley, toNew York City to see Fiddler on the Roof, and even on a weeklong trip to Puerto Rico. Then,back at the rectory in East Meadow after some outings, the priest, Kenneth Hasselbach, now 68,would sexually abuse Sammarco, sometimes in the shower, other times while wrestling, Sammarcosaid. The trauma Sammarco said he experienced as a teenager in the 1960s is resurfacing asHasselbach faces new allegation, this time involving child pornography. Last monthHasselbach, of Hollywood, Fla.,