The 26-year-old man at the center of retired priest Michael Wempe's sexual abuse trial testified Friday that Wempe fondled him in the early 1990s, several years after the priest had been treated for pedophilia and Cardinal Roger M. Mahony had returned him to the ministry.

The man, identified in court as Jayson B., said Wempe molested him twice when he was 11 and 12 as he sat on the priest's lap using a computer in Wempe's office at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where Wempe was a chaplain.

Mahony has said that he erred when he allowed Wempe, who had been accused of inappropriate conduct with minors and sent to a New Mexico treatment center, to return to the ministry in 1988. But [Leonard Levine], the accused priest's lawyer, has said Wempe was cured at the treatment center and has not abused anyone again.