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Saturday, January 15, 2005

Catholic Diocese settles lawsuit

Covington, Kentucky -

Covington Priest had record of sexual advances on women.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington has settled a lawsuit brought by a Lexington woman who says she was sexually molested by a priest in the 1960s and who has been a vocal advocate for victims of sex abuse by priests.

In an interview yesterday, Montgomery discussed documents that show the church transferred the priest who allegedly abused her from location to location. The records indicate that church leaders knew that Edward Fritsch, at the time a priest under the authority of the Covington Diocese, had made sexual advances to young women on a number of occasions, beginning shortly after his ordination in 1965.

Read the article at Kentucky.com dated Fri, Jan. 14, 2005.
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