Truth Stranger Than Fiction Dept.

[onager]

How refreshing! A priest who was sexually attracted to grown women.

A 75-YEAR-OLD priest, no less. Who got himself (and his church) conned/blackmailed by two women - Elaine Presser and her younger sister Rosemarie.

If the name sounds familiar - Elaine is the daughter-in-law of former Teamster boss Jackie Presser. When Jackie died, his widow proved she had learned a thing or two from living with Jackie all those years - she looted the family trust funds and ran off with the money.

So what's a suddenly poor woman to do? Along with other petty crimes, how about - hit all the local houses of worship and beg for charity with a different sob story every week.

Truly a wonderfully ecumenical family, the Pressers were Jewish when defrauding synagogues, Catholic when hitting up cathedrals, and Baptist when robbing the Protestants.

Then they ran into their 75-yr-old sugar daddy...

Just caught this story on an old episode of the ID Channel series "Pretty Dangerous." Here's a local account of the whole mind-boggling saga:

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/sex-lies-a-priest-and-elaine-presser/Content?oid=1498566

[trotsky]

1. Well now I've seen everything!