In a decision that may aid victims of childhood sexual abuse, an Illinois Appellate Court has ruled that an Illinois man who waited 19 years to sue a
priest over alleged sexual abuse can have his day in court.
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Justice withheld Feeney charges as Outagamie DA
The parents of a teenage girl who was sexually abused by her high school track and volleyball coach have sued the teacher and the school district, claiming
school officials were negligent.
2/5/2008
Records indicate Prosser declined to prosecute priest in 1979
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser told a mother in 1979 when he was Outagamie County district attorney that he did not want to prosecute a priest accused of abusing her sons because “it would be too hard on the boys,” newly released documents indicate.
The Green Bay priest, John Patrick Feeney, who is now 81, was eventually convicted in 2004 on three counts of sexual assault of a minor and one count of attempted sexual assault of a minor.
Prosser is scheduled to hear a case bro
As DA in ’79, he decided not to prosecute, records indicate
A Roman Catholic nun was sentenced Friday to a year in jail and 10 years’ probation for sexually abusing two teenage boys at an elementary school in the 1960s.
The cancer diagnosed in Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein is a relatively rare form that is especially unusual in people older than 60, a medical expert said Thursday, but is a kind that’s curable in a majority of cases.
An advocacy group for people abused by clergy wants St. Norbert Abbey to help turn over to authorities a priest accused of molesting a boy during a four-day visit to St. Norbert College in the 1980s
Man, Protestors Claim There May Be More Victims In Vegas
Church paid $187,000 in another case with same priest
Green Bay Diocese, Father John Patrick Feeney, documents from Personnel file and Police investigation.
Ramsey County District Judge Kathleen Gearin has ruled that a man who says he was molested in the 1980s by former Catholic priest Thomas Adamson can seek punitive damages in his lawsuit against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona.
1/8/2008
Local man suing Green Bay Diocese
Lisa Curtis Ozaukee News Graphic
CEDARBURG – A Cedarburg man who is suing the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay for covering up an abusive priest’s past misdeeds said he isn’t challenging the church, but rather those in charge of it.
“The church is the people. It’s the leadership we’re challenging,” said Todd Merryfield, who is suing the diocese with his brother, Troy, after they were abused as children by one of its priests.
“They could have stopped this at any point and none of us would be going through this.”
The Merryfields’ suit claims the d
Civil suit alleges church failed to protect boys
Two brothers molested by a priest filed a fraud lawsuit Wednesday, alleging the overseeing diocese knew the priest had a history of abusing children and allowed him access to the pair anyway.