The
highest-ranking New York priest ensnared in the Catholic Church sex
scandal was never asked for his side of the story by the district
attorneys investigating him, the clergyman's sister claimed yesterday.
Monsignor Charles Kavanagh -- defrocked Wednesday after the church
concluded that he sexually abused a former student decades ago -- told
his sister, Anne Mandt, that the neither the Manhattan, Bronx or
Westchester DA ever contacted him.
"If somebody had asked him these questions . . . they would have found out that it's a flat-out lie," Mandt said.
His alleged victim, Daniel Donohue, told the Manhattan DA in 2002
that Kavanagh sexually abused him back in the 1970s. Kavanagh later
worked in parishes in The Bronx and Westchester.
The Manhattan
DA's Office declined comment.
The Bronx and Westchester DA's offices did
not immediately return calls for comment.
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