ROCKVILLE - A Georgia priest was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for sexually abusing two brothers while he was a student at a Washington seminary in the early 1970s.
The Rev. Wayland Y. Brown, 59, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Circuit Court in November to battery and abuse of the brothers, who were 12 and 13 when the abuse began in 1974 at their Gaithersburg home.
One victim, now 42, told Judge Ann S. Harrington yesterday that the shame and bitter memories he has lived with drove him to consider suicide.
In a presentencing memorandum, county prosecutors alleged that Brown was ordained and kept in the Catholic Diocese of Savannah despite warning signs and accusations of abuse. They painted Brown as a serial molester who abused several boys in the 1970s and 1980s.
One told the judge that Brown abused him on a trip to Disney World in 1978.
Brown became close with the Gaithersburg boys while counseling their mother on marital problems. He would sometimes spend the night at the family's Gaithersburg home and took the boys on hiking trips, to movies and concerts.
The Rev. Wayland Y. Brown, 59, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Circuit Court in November to battery and abuse of the brothers, who were 12 and 13 when the abuse began in 1974 at their Gaithersburg home.
One victim, now 42, told Judge Ann S. Harrington yesterday that the shame and bitter memories he has lived with drove him to consider suicide.
In a presentencing memorandum, county prosecutors alleged that Brown was ordained and kept in the Catholic Diocese of Savannah despite warning signs and accusations of abuse. They painted Brown as a serial molester who abused several boys in the 1970s and 1980s.
One told the judge that Brown abused him on a trip to Disney World in 1978.
Brown became close with the Gaithersburg boys while counseling their mother on marital problems. He would sometimes spend the night at the family's Gaithersburg home and took the boys on hiking trips, to movies and concerts.