22
April
UNSIGNED CONFESSION (Woman: Priest admits to sex abuse in 1991 letter)
Rev. James Smith is accused of molesting a Long Island woman when she was 10 or 11 years old at a Queens Catholic School. The woman, Carol Poppito, now 41, said he admitted his perverse behavior in a letter to her, writing I don’t blame you if you curse me. She said Smith had warned her, Don’t tell anybody, and Don’t tell your father, a police lieutenant, about the abuse. She said it wasn’t until she was on a car trip with her mother and other family members in 1991