and try to stay out of trouble. in most other prison environments, edward mckeown would be a marked man. i m in effect a child molester, specifically the crime that i m here for, you know, was for a teenage boy who was i guess 13 when i began abusing him. mckeown is a former catholic priest serving a 25-year sentence for sexual battery and rape. i was then and i am now a person of faith. i was certainly a person of faith s who had a very dark secret. who caused a great deal of harm in individuals lives. that secret isn t there anymore. and that s probably this is going to sound crazy, i guess, one of the most one of the biggest blessings, if you can y. now i would want to think that the outer me and the enemy are pretty much the same. i ll say to people and i ll say
macho order of what crimes are acceptable and what crimes are not. but at the end of the day, we re all wearing blue jeans with a white stripe on them. i m just pulling time in nashville how am i supposed to know i ve been to worse places. all i do is write songs and play guitar and study the bible and try to stay out of trouble. and try to stay out of trouble. in most other prison environments, edward mckeown would be a marked man. i m in effect a child molester, specifically the crime that i m here for, you know, was for a teenage boy who was i guess 13 when i began abusing him. mckeown is a former catholic priest serving a 25-year sentence for sexual battery and rape. i was then and i am now a person of faith. i was certainly a person of faith i was active as a priest
of the way child molesters are traditionally treated in prison, which is not very good, you know. but the truth is, i have not been mistreated at all, either by inmates or staff. mckeown is lucky, as sex offenders go. he s assigned to the prison s one minimum security wing where most of the inmates are more interested in going home than getting in trouble. it s not the only positive thing mckeown sees in his incarceration. i was a catholic priest for a long time. i was then and i am now, you know, a person of faith. i was certainly a person of faith when i was active as a priest who had a very dark secret, and i don t have that secret anymore. i don t have to hide that. well, i ve asked god to take care of me, and so far, you know, he s said, okay, you know, i ll do that. coming up on lockup: raw
periodically over these 5 1/2 years, you know, i ve turned the television set on to see my face, you know, on the television set. that s pretty uncomfortable. we met edward mckeown in tennessee at the river bend institution. i was ordained as a catholic priest in nashville in january of 1970. i served as an active priest for 19 years at which time i was in effect mustered out of the priesthood because of my behavior. i am, in effect, a child molesters. according to police investigators, mckeown admitted to molesting 22 boys, both during and after his time as a priest. the statute of limitations had run out on all but one. it got him a 25-year sentence. i certainly had some anxious moments when i walked in because
i ve been to worse places. all i do is write songs and play guitar and study the bible and try to stay out of trouble. in most other prison environments, edward mckeown would be a marked man. i m in effect a child molester, specifically the crime that i m here for, you know, was for a teenage boy who was i guess 13 when i began abusing him. mckeown is a former catholic priest serving a 25-year sentence for sexual battery and rape. i was then and i am now a person of faith. i was certainly a person of faith i was active as a priest who had a very dark secret. who caused a great deal of harm in individuals lives. that secret isn t there anymore. and that s probably this is going to sound crazy, i guess, one of the most one of the biggest blessings, if you can