Man Denies Seeing Maday Molest Friend // Two Boys Had Secret `Pact' About Accused Priest

OSHKOSH, Wis. A man who was a few feet away when a priestallegedly molested his friend testified Friday that "I did not seeit" and that the victim "never said a word" to him about theincident.

The 22-year-old, now of Mokena, Ill., added, however, that heand his friend had a "pact" that "we were not to be alone" with theRev. Norbert J. Maday because of his reported sexual advances.

Maday, 56, is on trial in Winnebago County Circuit Court wherehe is accused of criminal sexual assault and victim intimidationresulting from outings here in 1986 with teenage boys from Our Ladyof the Ridge Parish in Chi cago Ridge. The trial resumes Monday.

In later testimony Friday, a Missouri psychologist said hisreview of the case showed a "very reasonable degree of certainty"that the two young men who have accused the priest fit behavioralpatterns of sexual abuse victims.

And in an unrelated allegation, a former altar boy at St. Bedethe Venerable Parish, 8300 S. Kostner, said Maday fondled him when hewas 10 - while the boy sat on Maday's lap in a car and in a swimmingpool in the south suburbs.

In the main case, Maday is accused of fondling two men, then 13and 14, on separate trips to a religious youth center called the Place 2B.

The Mokena man told the jury he was on one of the outings andwas in the room when Maday and several boys were wrestling. He saidhe refused Maday's urging to strip to his underwear and join in.

He sat on the floor watching TV in front of the bed where Madayand the other youths wrestled, he said. While he did not witness anyfondling, he said his friend did get off the bed quickly and satelsewhere, away from Maday.

Psychologist James H. Straub of Columbia, Mo., said he reviewed documents from the case and that theaccusers demonstrated characteristics common among people who weremolested as children. However, he was not permitted to personallyinterview them because the two men refused to submit to similarreviews by defense experts.

On cross-examination, Straub said he was not given severalmental health and educational documents about the men that wereturned up by the defense from both before and after the allegedabuse.

"It would be important information to take into consideration,"he said.

Also, Friday Judge William Crane allowed prosecutors to call aformer altar boy, now living in New Orleans, as a witness to testifyabout his accusations about abuse he said occurred in the southsuburbs.

He was permitted to testify in an attempt to show the "intentand motive" of Maday in the charges he faces here.

Now 24 years old, he said Maday let him sit on his lap and steerthe car on a 1980 trip to the south suburbs from St. Bede.