US Sex abuse victim to sue Pope

Adhik Vaishakh Shuddha Dwadashi, Kaliyug Varsha 5112

St Paul: Pope Benedict and other senior Vatican officials are facing legal action from an alleged victim of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing hundreds of children in the US over several decades.

A lawyer for the victim said he was taking legal action against the pope, his second-in-command Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, for failing to defrock the priest.

The Vatican dismissed the suit as illegitimate. “The case against the Holy See and its officials is completely without merit. Most of the complaint rehashes old theories already rejected by US courts,” Vatican lawyer Jeffrey Lena said.

At a news conference in St Paul in Minnesota on Thursday, lawyer Jeff Anderson said the plaintiff was filing a federal lawsuit against the three men for failing to defrock Father Lawrence Murphy.

Murphy, a Wisconsin priest, is alleged to have molested as many as 200 deaf children at a Wisconsin school from 1950 to 1974, when he was sacked after begin accused of sex offences against minors. Anderson said the alleged victim sent certified letters to the Vatican in 1995 asking for Murphy to be defrocked but that he received no response.

Source: TOI

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