

That was the day I kind of withdrew from everybody.’ ‘I went in the shower, and I turned the light off … and I just cried. “I said, ‘Oh God, I thought I was the only one.’” His sibling revealed he’d once snuck into O’Hara’s office to find “two paper bags filled with pictures of him molesting boys.” He said, ‘We should do something about the director at that camp we were at,’ ” Clemente said. He had seen the movie, ‘Something About Amelia,’ and I think Ted Danson played a sex offender.
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His quest for justice began in 1985, with a TV movie about incest. He would go on to become a criminal profiler for the feds, to his present career as a TV writer for the show “Criminal Minds.” A picture of Clemente around the time he was molested as a child.Ĭlemente at the time of the O’Hara investigation was a fledgling Bronx Family Court prosecutor. O’Hara had plied a teenaged Clemente with beer and violated him while they were alone at the Catholic Youth Organization camp in upstate Godeffroy.

The meeting was his sixth in three months with the violent, intimidating drunk from Long Island with the perpetual “sh-t eating smirk,” Clemente remembered. “I was scared to death while I was there,” Clemente, now 59 and retired from a storied FBI career, recalled of the 1986 meeting.Ĭlemente had convinced the predator he was a kindred spirit and had to keep his cool, or the criminal case being built against O’Hara - a Boy Scout leader, Catholic school teacher and youth-basketball coach believed to have sexually abused hundreds of kids - would fall apart. O’Hara, was showing Clemente pictures of kids he’d molested - just like he’d abused Clemente a decade prior. Federal agents and an NYPD detective were listening in.Īnd his old camp boss, Michael J.

The twenty-something Clemente was wearing a wire. When Jim Clemente walked into the Bronx home of his former summer camp director, it wasn’t for old time’s sake. Prince Andrew asks judge to toss sex assault suit- because accuser was age of consent in NY 'No justice': Thousands of NYC child sex abuse cases stalled in courtsĬatholic church in Albany settles first Child Victims' Act sex abuse suit for $750KĪlbany to pass bill giving adult survivors of sexual abuse another year to sue
