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Sunday, March 06, 2005

Another priest sued for sex abuse

West Union, Iowa ---

An anonymous man alleges a now-retired Catholic priest sexually abused him in Oelwein more than 50 years ago.

The suit, filed Friday by Waterloo attorneys Chad Swanson and Tom Staack for a plaintiff identified as John Doe, alleges the Rev. William Goltz abused him in the summer of 1954, when the plaintiff was 13 and the priest was assigned to Sacred Heart Church in Oelwein.

The Fayette County suit alleges Goltz asked the 13-year-old to help him wash a car. "Goltz requested they drive the vehicle to allow it to dry," the suit states, and they drove to a rock quarry outside Oelwein, where Goltz sexually abused the boy.

"Also at that time, Goltz had possession of illicit photographs of young boys in his vehicle's glove compartment, and showed these photographs to plaintiff," the suit states.

Read the article at WCFCourier.com dated March 2, 2005
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