25 Men Join Sex-Abuse Lawsuit Against Priest
A sex-abuse lawsuit against a Roman Catholic priest. For years, Doug Ray's wife talked about growing up on a farm and couldn't understand why her husband was so silent about his own childhood. He went public with the reason yesterday as part of a sex-abuse lawsuit against a Roman Catholic priest. From the third or fourth grade … [Read more...]
Priest To Plead Guilty
A former seminary student who sexually molested a Gaithersburg boy in the mid-1970s has agreed to plead guilty to one count of child abuse on Nov. 19 in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The Rev. Wayland Yoder Brown of Savannah, Ga., who served as a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Savannah, also will plead guilty to one count of … [Read more...]
Priest Denies Molesting Altar Boy
Priest Molested An Altar Boy. A former pastor of a Roman Catholic church, testifying in his own defense, denied that he twice molested an 11-year-old altar boy after Sunday Masses. The trial of the Rev. John M. Banko is the first criminal proceeding of a New Jersey cleric since sex abuse in the church became a national … [Read more...]
N.H. Bishop Says Priest Sex Less Serious If Not With Parishioner
Questioned under oath about the church abuse scandal, New Hampshire's bishop suggested that it is less serious for a priest to have sex with someone from outside the parish than with a parishioner. "You know, one is an activity where you have a trusted relationship with a parishioner. The other is an activity where you're away … [Read more...]
Four More Men File Lawsuit Against Archdiocese
A Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against Archdiocese. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati in the 1980s knowingly transferred a sexually abusive priest to St. Christopher Church in Vandalia, where he then abused two 14-year-old boys and two older teens, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Montgomery County Common Pleas … [Read more...]
