NEW JERSEY
Philadelphia Inquirer
By David O’Reilly
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
An Ohio man who alleges he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest in the early 1970s but repressed all memory of the assaults is using the “late discovery” feature of New Jersey’s child endangerment law to sue the Diocese of Camden.
Mark Bryson, 50, who lives near Cincinnati, alleges that the Rev. Joseph E. Shannon assaulted him multiple times when he was a first grader at St. Anthony of Padua School in Camden.
In a suit filed Friday in U.S. District Court, Bryson says he left the school after first grade and “repressed all memory” of the assaults until last February, when he learned that a registered sex offender had moved into his neighborhood.
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