WHEN Robert Friscic, above, was being molested by a Catholic priest from the age of 11 until he was 18, he kept asking his abuser why he was being subjected to to such intolerable behavior. The answer he got was “because I love you.” Father Anthony Bongiorno, since deceased, also told him and other victims that he was simply performing: "An old Spanish custom in which the altar boy sleeps with the priest."