A young man who received inappropriate text messages from his Catholic high school chaplain that ultimately helped send the priest to prison in Louisiana for child molestation says he was “nauseous” watching the clergyman appear at a parole hearing Thursday and try to downplay the nature of the communications as “friendly”.
“There was honestly a moment I thought I was going to vomit,” Rex Perrette told Guardian reporting partner WWL Louisiana during an interview after watching the hearing virtually, his first public comments ever about his role in the case that landed Patrick Wattigny behind bars. “It also [is] a disgustful feeling.”
