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Alabama priest accused of having a sexual relationship with teen stripper, paying her thousands in hush money
NY Post ^ | 08/14/2025 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 08/14/2025 6:11:10 AM PDT by DFG

A Catholic priest is under investigation for allegedly starting a years-long relationship with a 17-year-old stripper — and paying her hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep quiet about it.

Robert Sullivan, 61, is on leave as pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Homewood, Alabama, after he was publicly accused of initiating a relationship with Heather Jones, now 33, when she was a vulnerable teenager in 2009.

Jones said in a letter to the Diocese of Birmingham — and shared with the Guardian — that she first met Sullivan while she was dancing at a strip club he frequented.

While tipping her, he offered her $273,000 to sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for “an ongoing relationship that would include financial support in exchange for private companionship,” Jones alleged, telling the Guardian that the agreement included sex.

Jones, who was raised in foster care due to her mother’s “severe neglect,” said she “was hesitant but ultimately agreed due to his persistence and the state [of mind] I was in,” according to her letter to the diocese.

Days later, she received two wire transfers of $136,500 each under the name of an attorney’s office, she alleged.

Sullivan, initially posing as a doctor, took her out to shop, eat, drink and stay at hotels in at least six different Alabama cities over the course of the relationship, which lasted until this year, she alleged.

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1 posted on 08/14/2025 6:11:10 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Well, at least it’s a girl.


2 posted on 08/14/2025 6:11:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DFG

Well. At least it wasn’t a nine year old boy. I suppose that is progress.


3 posted on 08/14/2025 6:12:04 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: dfwgator

LOL, just seconds apart...!


4 posted on 08/14/2025 6:12:58 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: DFG

Where are the pics?

Asking for a friend.

J.K. 🤣


5 posted on 08/14/2025 6:13:51 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: DFG

16 year relationship and: “Jones said she felt compelled to go public with the allegations because Sullivan works so closely with families and their children at his church.” He must have balked on paying for the latest BBL.


6 posted on 08/14/2025 6:15:01 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: DFG

Some of these priests are real horn dogs


7 posted on 08/14/2025 6:17:41 AM PDT by albie
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To: DFG

“Heather Jones, now 33, when she was a vulnerable teenager in 2009.“

A vulnerable stripper, who bilked 136k out of him. Vulnerable is not a word I would ever apply to a stripper. She was the very definition of a predator as she waved those sugar tits in the face of a man she thought was a doctor.

“Vulnerable”…. the little wide-eyed waif. Lol


8 posted on 08/14/2025 6:22:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: dfwgator

What I want to know is whether she’s a biological girl or a boy pretending to be female.


9 posted on 08/14/2025 6:23:14 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: dfwgator

My thought exactly. At Catholic priests like girls now. Although the priest grossly overpaid his sugar baby. Where did he get the 236k? Somebody better check the bingo money.


10 posted on 08/14/2025 6:23:50 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: DFG
OK, this "...when she was a vulnerable teenager in 2009...
and this "...she first met Sullivan while she was dancing at a strip club..."
don't really jibe with each other.
11 posted on 08/14/2025 6:24:24 AM PDT by budj (Combat Vet, second of three generations.)
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To: DFG

Where does a priest get $273,000?


12 posted on 08/14/2025 6:24:50 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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And the beat goes on

13 posted on 08/14/2025 6:25:52 AM PDT by deport
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To: DFG

I went to the posted story to see the pics of the waif. Vulnerable…. the very picture of “vulnerable“ lol

That’s one hard jezebel there.


14 posted on 08/14/2025 6:27:00 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: DFG

Wait, there are heterosexual priests too??


15 posted on 08/14/2025 6:35:07 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: DFG

“Bless me, Sugar Daddy, for I have sinned...”


16 posted on 08/14/2025 6:35:15 AM PDT by ZOOKER
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To: DFG

Oh look!
Another pervy Pastor-

G-d is in His Heaven, and we will all face judgement.
Of that I am certain.

All the rest is people scamming for your money.


17 posted on 08/14/2025 6:37:48 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: HIDEK6

“Where does a priest get $273,000?”

It sounds like the flock got fleeced.

Lol.


18 posted on 08/14/2025 6:38:25 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: DesertRhino

“Vulnerable is not a word I would ever apply to a stripper” —wow, that suggests a very sheltered life if you cannot imagine a vulnerable stripper.


19 posted on 08/14/2025 6:40:32 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: DFG

This is so disappointing. It’s not my parish, but my family and I have attended Mass there many times.


20 posted on 08/14/2025 6:41:01 AM PDT by EvelynMcHale (vroom, vroom, mothertrucker)
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