Years long and she is now 17? Well, that makes him a pedo, so this will be covered up by the Church. He will go into “counseling” for a year or so and then re-assigned to another parish instead of being excommunicated for having violated his oath of celibacy to his Gawd.
...Heather Jones, 33, says she met Sullivan in 2009 when she was 17, dancing at a strip club where Sullivan was a patron...
...Jones told the Guardian she recently began law school and did not abide by the terms of the non-disclosure statement with Sullivan because she believed it would not hold up in court...
The age of consent in Alabama is 16, so I don’t think there was anything illegal. I wouldn’t put him in the pedophile category. If he wasn’t a priest, this wouldn’t be a notable story at all.
You have it mixed up. He first met her in the strip bar when she was a 17 year old stripper. She is now 33. The overwhelming odds are the woman isn't even Roman Catholic.