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September
A PRIEST FROM CINCINNATI, A PHILIPPINE VILLAGE, AND DECADES OF SECRECY
September 9, 2019
Tim Sullivan,
Cincinnati
TALUSTUSAN, Philippines — The American priest’s voice echoed over the phone line.
“Happy days are gone,” he said in the 2018 call, recorded by a young man whose accusations would shake this little island village and reveal how allegations of sex crimes by priests are still ignored, sometimes for decades, in one of the world’s most Catholic countries. “It’s all over.”
The young man later told The Associated Press he was 12 when Father Pius Hendricks first took him into the bathroom of the church’s little rectory and sexually