The women alleged that “private companionship” arrangements began at the age of 17, and Father Alabama conducted an investigation after the investigation. Alabama

Roman Catholic priest Alabama Church officials said an investigation is underway – he suddenly announced that he is “personal leave” – a woman alleged to her superiors that he would support the transaction in a “private companionship” capacity, including gender, including sexual conduct, starting at the age of 17.

Plaintiff Heather Jones also claimed that clergyman Robert Sullivan recently paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep silent, a claim she supported bank records, an email and a copy of the legal agreement.

Jones, 33, provided the Guardian with a formal written statement containing her charges against Sullivan, 61, and provided her charges to the Parish of Birmingham.

She said she stood up AlabamaShe said she was worried that “others may be vulnerable to the same type of manipulation and exploitation,” she said she endured it.

Jones allowed public identification by name, saying she hoped that it would improve the credibility of her account.

Birmingham Diocese spokesman Donald Carson said Tuesday the allegations against Sullivan are being consulted by an independent review committee of the local church. Carson said, as with its protocol, the parish forwarded the charges to the Vatican entity investigating cases of clergy misconduct.

Carson said Sullivan will be banned from public ministry until the allegations against him are resolved.

Voicemail The parish with Jones – The voicemail she shared with the Guardian provides her with free therapy counseling.

It is unclear how much scrutiny may be reviewed from the outside authorities. Carson said the parish had reported Sullivan to the Alabama State agency, which investigated child abuse cases because Jones said she was when she met him. But Alabama Department of Human Resources officials said the case does not meet the criteria they can participate in it.

Law enforcement investigators are reluctant to act when certain religious clergy are accused of having sexual contact with adolescents who have reached the legal consent age Say this is impossible To enable a consensus sexual relationship between clergy and legal adults, these adults are spiritual guidance for clergy.

However, Sullivan may face consequences within the Catholic Church. Since the early 2000s, when the Catholic Church of the Global World implemented the clergy, clergy belonging to those considered young would be minors in those under the age of 18 – sexual contact with them was abused. reform Amid the consequences of decades-old paper harassment scandals.

The guardian tried to contact Sullivan for comment several times, which was unsuccessful.

As she wrote in a statement to the parish in late July, Jones was recently reported to The Guardian, who grew up in foster care after being removed from her mother’s custody “due to serious neglect.” Growing up, she wrote, she lacked “consistent support from adults”, allowing her to maintain employment or formal education – and so she tried to make ends meet by being a dancer in “adult institutions” outside Birmingham.

Jones reported meeting with Sullivan at that institution at the age of 17. He was a regular customer who tipped her during her shift and soon asked for “help change” [her] She wrote, “Life” she wrote, if she called him, she wrote.

“Sullivan proposed to “build an ongoing relationship that would include financial support in exchange for private companionship,” Jones wrote. Jones told the Guardian that the term included gender. Jones said Sullivan then began having sex in at least six different cities in Alabama — the entire process started when she was 17.

When Jones met Sullivan, Jones wrote: “She was a minor, inexperienced adult relationship.” She wrote: “I was hesitant, but due to his perseverance and the country, I finally reached an agreement [of mind] I’m inside. ”

Jones said Sullivan bought her a phone number and he contacted her frequently. She said he initially showed it as a “doctor”, although she later learned that she was a pastor and his brother was a doctor.

She wrote in the statement that it was found that Sullivan belonged to a Catholic clergy—his members promised to quit drinking and taught that intercourse and marriage were guilty because she attended church services throughout her youth and had difficulty reconciling “his public role and private behavior.”

She wrote that Sullivan paid Jones to participate in a rehabilitation program after experiencing depression, emotional instability and addiction during the schedule.

Jones wrote that Sullivan and the attorney representing him ended up getting her signed undisclosed agreement in exchange for $273,000.

She shared an unsigned copy of the NDA with her guardian. She also provided a copy of the March 27 message from Sullivan’s Madame North email address, which sentenced: “Someone will call you to sign the NDA.”

Four days after the bank records she shared with the Guardian, Jones received $136,500 in wire transfers from an account in the name of a law firm. Bank records show that one day later, she received a $136,500 wire transfer from the same law firm account.

Additionally, in more than 125 different transactions from July 18 to March 26, 2024, Jones paid nearly $120,000 for a Venmo account for Jones in the name of Sullivan.

Jones said it was not clear whether Sullivan took the money out of his personal finances and remembered to wonder if it might have come from other sources. Jones said he gave her own payment to help her pay for her living. Jones recalls that Sullivan told her that he was also happy to give her the money because he loved her, and so did Jesus Christ.

Jones wrote that she later suggested modifying the NDA with Sullivan and asked for an additional $100,000. She said the agreement “are very much in favor of his interests and does not provide meaningful protection, healing or justice” to deal with Sullivan, who she considers her “exploitative and predatory.”

Jones wrote that Sullivan and his lawyer ignored her. A few days after writing on July 23, she provided a statement to the Parish of Birmingham. Jones said she would share phone records and pictures of her arguments to confirm her version of the event if she sought material.

Sullivan tells his fellow bishop of Birmingham at the Mass of the Mary on August 3 Steven Raica He is authorized to request “personal leave” after “praying and reflection”.

Sullivan said shortly before the end of the Mass: “Please keep remembering my prayers in your prayers – I will do the same for you.”

On August 10, Birmingham Parish pastor Kevin Bazzel told his fellow countrymen that Raica appointed him as our interim administrator in the absence of Sullivan.

Sullivan celebrated his appointment in June 32. He also served as president of John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham for six years and was appointed as a director of the Education Foundation in 2023 Report.

He announced nearly four years of leave after Raica appointed him as one of the parish pastors (a senior administrative position).

In 2020, Sullivan has Appear On ABC, Abc Allow Ablow, where he discussed the help of his brother, the infectious disease doctor, recovering from Covid.

Jones said she recently started law school and violated the statement of the Birmingham diocese in her statement about Sullivan, which is estimated to be about one-quarter of Catholics because she was convinced it would not be held in court.

She also wrote that she thought the shouting about Sullivan was crucial because “he was working behind closed doors and his behavior towards me did not align with the values he taught.”

Carson, spokesman for the Birmingham Parish, said the allegations against Sullivan were “unfortunately all participants.”

“We have father…Sullivan and the woman who made the charges in our prayers,” Carson said.