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Watson v. Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Phoenix2/13/2003
pills and intravenous drugs, and nearly killing himself with an overdose.
In a pretrial interrogatory answer, Watson stated that he and Jenson had been together discussing the Simpson verdict and "how the bad guy got off" and he remembered "a weird sense that [Watson] had been grievously wronged in life and that the bad guy had somehow gotten away." He "just blurted out" the fact that he had been sexually molested by Bredemann, but he and Jenson "did not discuss the matter in any detail."
In a pre-trial deposition, Watson testified he and Jenson were standing together in the kitchen of the Acme Bar when the memory breakthrough came. In response to a comment about the Simpson trial, Watson had said words to the effect of, "I was molested by a priest." In his deposition, he denied having used the word "fucked" to describe the molestation.
Jenson testified, however, that he could not be certain the conversation with Watson about the molestation took place a week before or a week after the Simpson verdict was rendered and that they did not discuss the Simpson verdict at all. He said Watson had used the terms "fucked by a priest" and "raped by a priest" in that conversation and had told him about the circumstances of the molestation in some detail over the next forty-five minutes. Jenson also testified Watson did not tell him at that time he had just remembered the molestation, or that he had forgotten about it, and Jenson assumed Watson was telling him about it to get it off his chest.
Watson also testified how he had brought up the Bredemann molestation on at least one occasion with a group of his friends; that is, "a house full of people doing the same drugs" who would "hang out and talk." His friends were "coming down" on him because of his excessive drug use, and he became angry, so he said, "Hey, have you ever been fucked by a priest?" He admitted that he said this in order to rationalize his drug abuse. He could not pinpoint the time frame for this event.
Watson did not reveal Bredemann's molestation to his family until nearly two years after the purported recovery of his memory and the account of the recovery also varies. He was at the family home to retrieve his belongings and leave home. This decision came a few days after a disturbing and emotional late-night encounter between Watson, who had been "partying," and his father.
When Watson returned for his possessions, his sister was home and questioned him persistently about leaving. Watson finally revealed the Bredemann molestation by telling his sister that he had just recently remembered the incident a few months ago, not specifically twenty months ago, but he did not mention the Simpson verdict.
While they were talking, Watson's mother returned home and wanted to know why both of them were so upset. Watson's sister urged him to tell his mother what had happened, and he did. Watson told his mother he had remembered the molestation "a while back" or "a few months ago" with friends while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. He and his group of friends were doing "disgusting guy things" where they would shout out gross things such as, "Have you ever had sex with this and that?" Watson had blurted out something about having a priest molest or rape him. His mother had understood Watson to say that Jenson was with him in the group, but Watson did not say he was alone with Jenson, that he was at Jenson's place of work, that he was having a serious conversation with Jenson, that the conversation had taken place twenty months earlier, or that he was watching news of the Simpson verdict.
His mother then urged him to confide in his father, wh
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