February 17, 2015
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Monsignor William Lynn walks to the Criminal Justice Center before a scheduled verdict reading, June 22, 2012, in Philadelphia.
Leo Omar Hernandez has been ordered by a Common Pleas Court judge to give a deposition in the civil case of his former "best guy friend" Billy Doe, Big Trial reports.
Hernandez has yet to appear as a witness since he originally received a subpoena to appear on Dec. 12.
According to the docket in the case, Judge Jacqueline F. Allen granted a motion by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Feb. 11 to order Hernandez to appear within 30 days.
Hernandez will join other witnesses who have already been deposed in the civil case, including Bishop Edward P. Cullen, Msgr. William J. Lynn, and Bishop Joseph R. Cistone, according to Big Trial.
Billy Doe supposedly told Hernandez his story of multiple rapes as an altar boy back when they were high school classmates at the International Christian Academy in Northeast Philadelphia.
Hernandez appeared as a witness in the criminal trial on Jan. 15, 2013, where he was the only prosecution witness who could corroborate any details from Billy Doe's stories. He presented himself as a clean-cut, honorably-discharged Air Force vet.
In the civil case, Billy Doe is suing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for monetary damages in exchange for his alleged suffering. Meanwhile, his former "best guy friend" Hernandez has filed a medical malpractice case filed in the same Common Pleas Court against a Philadelphia osteopath, a male doctor that Hernandez claims got him hooked on drugs and then had an abusive sexual relationship with him.
Records gathered for the medical malpractice case paint a totally different picture of Leo Omar Hernandez as a former drug addict, steroid abuser, and dancer in gay male strip clubs. The contradictions would appear to be the subject of Hernandez's deposition in the civil case.
The projected trial date in the civil case is Aug. 3.
