Lawsuit Seeks to Hold Catholic Church Accountable in New York and Florida for Alleged Abuse

By Corinne Ramey
Wall Street Journal
October 16, 2018

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawsuit-seeks-to-hold-catholic-church-accountable-in-new-york-and-florida-for-alleged-abuse-1539732059

When Mark Cattell was 9 years old in 1981, he said, he met a priest who had been transferred to Florida from a Long Island, N.Y., diocese. He said the priest fondled him after Mass. On another occasion, he said, the priest forced him to give oral sex.

“I remember him wagging his finger at me, and saying, ‘Don’t you let anybody know about this,’ ” Mr. Cattell, now a 45-year-old magistrate in Alexandria, Va., said in an interview. For decades, he remained silent.