Green Bay Diocese Ordered to Pay $500,000
The Associated Press reports that a jury in Nevada on November 2nd returned a verdict against the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, in the amount of $500,000 for negligently transferring to Nevada a priest with a known history of child sexual abuse.
The news story can be found at – http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Nev-jury-Wis-diocese-to-pay-500K-in-abuse-case-4003224.php
As reported, the plaintiff, known as John Doe 119, claimed to have been sexually assaulted in 1984 by Catholic priest John Patrick Feeney at a Las Vegas parish. When the victim reported the assault no one believed his assertions. After learning of other victims of this priest, the plaintiff then came forward with his lawsuit and apparently he was able to prove prior knowledge by the Catholic Church in Wisconsin of the dangerousness of this priest and that it did nothing to warn others of his crimes or to protect them from him.
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