The Huffington Post reports that Leeland Eisenberg, the person who allegedly held hostages at Hillary Clinton's Rochester, NY campaign office, may be the same Leeland Eisenberg who, in 2002, filed a lawsuit against Cardinal Law, then Archbishop of Boston, claiming that he had been sexually abused in the 1980's by one of the diocese's priests.
On at least one occasion, Eisenberg awoke after drunkenly passing out in Father Buntel's car "to find himself being raped by Father Buntel in the driveway of St. Catherine's rectory," the suit said. At the time, Eisenberg, 21, was "in a state of desperation" over his "homelessness, the loss of his mother, and the abuse he suffered at the hands of his violent, alcoholic father."
Cardinal Law resigned in December, 2002 over sexual abuse scandals in his archdiocese, just three months after Eisenberg filed the lawsuit.
I hope we can have a bit of compassion for this person. It doesn't sound as though life has treated him very well. Initial reports indicate mental illness and alcoholism.
It also appears that the state police of New Hampshire did an excellent job in handling the situation. See, government can work. Feds take note.