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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Sociopaths seek and often obtain positions of leadership in every organization—governments, corporations, non-profits, churches etc etc.
If you want virtue I would recommend a dog.
So, the priest has a mistress. After 16 years, she decides she has been abused, and takes him to court.
Interesting in that there is no claim he stole the money.
1) He paid her $273K (plus tips), and I'm supposed to believe she's the victim? Sounds like she was working him.
2) 17-year-old stripper? Isn't the minimum age 21 in Alabama to work in a bar?
‘Vulnerable’ seemed odd to me, too. Not to absolve the priest, but how ‘vulnerable’ is a 17 year old stripper?
So why did she finally come forward at 33, did the cash cow dry up? Not that I am excusing what the priest did but, C’mon man, it took her what 15 or 16 years to report it?
He couldn’t have waited until she was 18?
Maybe he found someone new...
He couldn’t have waited until she was 18?
I know, right?
A female? Did she praise his love making by saying he treated her just like one of the guys?
Really, this is just a long term girlfriend, he hooked up with a young stripper and they had a 16 year relationship, it is terrible for a priest, but a long way from homosexual rape of 11 year old alter boys who were raped not only sexually but in their relationship with the church and God’s earthly representative, which must be an exploitation of faith and a combination of violations that we can’t even imagine.
He served as a monk in Gaza, for many years and earned considerable controversy for his methods in reforming the local prostitutes and scandalous women. After his death, he was completely cleared of any possible impropriety or excessive zeal. … His legend states that after obtaining the name and address of every prostitute in the city, he hired himself out as a day laborer, and took his wage to one of these women at the end of the day. He would hire the woman for the night and, according to legend, spend the night awake and praying. … Vitalis was killed when a man, misunderstanding the nature of the monk's visit to a brothel, struck him on the head. Vitalis managed to return to his hut where he died. Apparently during his burial, former prostitutes came out to explain his works before processing with candles and lanterns as his body was brought to the grave.
https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1864
The checks bounced. Or stopped coming. A true pedophile, once his/her victim reaches a certain age, loses interest. And looks for another young one.
Looks like he escaped from a Frosty Morn commercial.
Most likely.
Apparently not.
This is absolutely outrageous!
The “sex-priests” are supposed to be raping boys.
Now this.
From his parish.
How is she “vulnerable “ if she’s dancing in a strip club?
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