Jury hears testimony to decide damages to priest molestation victim
Dennis Kavanaugh may not have known divorce, imprisonment and persistent guilt and shame if he hadn't been molested by a priest as a young boy, his lawyer said Monday as the second phase of a landmark civil trial against the Archdiocese of San Francisco got underway.
Kavanaugh is one of 22 former grade-school students who said they were repeatedly molested by the Rev. Joseph Pritchard, who died in 1988 before the allegations against him surfaced. A jury hearing Kavanaugh's lawsuit against the archdiocese decided Friday that church officials knew or should have known Pritchard was abusing young boys while he was a pastor at St. Martin of Tours in San Jose."
Read the article at AP Wire dated Mar. 21, 2005
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home