Teen, priest & sex tape: Parents file suit
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August 29, 2010, Sunday
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AN American couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their 18-year-old daughter in the basement of their home and are now suing, saying he got her pregnant.
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, alleges that the Reverend Luis Bonilla Margarito carried on a sexual relationship with the teen while he was the chaplain of Reading Central Catholic High School and she was a senior there.
The girl's parents became suspicious and installed a camera in their basement, where Bonilla and the teen were spending large amounts of time. The camera recorded the couple having sex in November 2009, after she had graduated, the suit claimed.
Bonilla and the teen are now evidently living together.
On Friday, a reporter knocked on the door of the apartment where Bonilla now lives. A woman answered, and she identified herself as the teen named in the lawsuit filed by her parents.
Bonilla was removed from his dual posts as chaplain and pastor of St Joseph Church in Reading after her parents took the sex tape to the Diocese of Allentown in Pennsylvania. He acknowledged at the time an "inappropriate relationship" with the teen, according to a diocesan news release from last November.
Bonilla, 41, was sent to a treatment facility, but "continued to have intimate contact with (the teen) during this time period and ultimately impregnated her," the suit said. She gave birth to a girl.
The parents say they are alienated from their daughter as a result of her relationship with Bonilla, and are seeking punitive damages for breach of fiduciary duty, infliction of emotional distress and gross negligence. The suit names as defendants Bonilla, the diocese, the high school, Allentown Bishop John Barres, and former Bishop Edward Cullen.
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, alleges that the Reverend Luis Bonilla Margarito carried on a sexual relationship with the teen while he was the chaplain of Reading Central Catholic High School and she was a senior there.
The girl's parents became suspicious and installed a camera in their basement, where Bonilla and the teen were spending large amounts of time. The camera recorded the couple having sex in November 2009, after she had graduated, the suit claimed.
Bonilla and the teen are now evidently living together.
On Friday, a reporter knocked on the door of the apartment where Bonilla now lives. A woman answered, and she identified herself as the teen named in the lawsuit filed by her parents.
Bonilla was removed from his dual posts as chaplain and pastor of St Joseph Church in Reading after her parents took the sex tape to the Diocese of Allentown in Pennsylvania. He acknowledged at the time an "inappropriate relationship" with the teen, according to a diocesan news release from last November.
Bonilla, 41, was sent to a treatment facility, but "continued to have intimate contact with (the teen) during this time period and ultimately impregnated her," the suit said. She gave birth to a girl.
The parents say they are alienated from their daughter as a result of her relationship with Bonilla, and are seeking punitive damages for breach of fiduciary duty, infliction of emotional distress and gross negligence. The suit names as defendants Bonilla, the diocese, the high school, Allentown Bishop John Barres, and former Bishop Edward Cullen.
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