Alleged confession made to sex offender

Thomas Rivera, a South Jersey man who did not go to police after hearing an alleged child killer’s confession is a registered sex offender himself. This week, his son, the Rev. David Rivera, dismissed any notion that his father’s motivation for not going to police about Hernandez’s confession – in the Etan Patz case – could have been influenced by trouble in his own life. “That did not have anything to do with it,” David Rivera, a priest at St. Peter Roman Catholic Church in Merchantville, said Friday. “That’s a man’s past,” he added. “That has nothing to do with the current situation.” http://on.cpsj.com/Mqc2Ji