LAWSUIT Claiming Abuse by Catholic Priests Dismissed

By Pete O'Cain
Wenatchee World
December 11, 2020

https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/local/lawsuit-claiming-abuse-by-catholic-priests-dismissed/article_80501ffa-3c19-11eb-9174-7304c52cbbf1.html

ELLENSBURG — A lawsuit claiming sexual abuse committed by four Catholic priests formerly of an Ellensburg church was dismissed Thursday.

The suit was filed in April 2019 by a man identified only as John Doe against the Catholic Diocese of Yakima and four priests, including Father Seamus Kerr, a senior priest at Holy Apostles Parish in East Wenatchee.

John Doe claimed he was abused in the late 1970s and early 1980s at St. Andrew Catholic Church, when he was between the ages of 10 and 18. The two sides reached a settlement after the allegations were found to be false, the diocese said Friday in a news release.