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Philadelphia Inquirer
December 20, 2011|By Jeremy Roebuck, Inquirer Staff Writer
WILMINGTON – A sex-abuse lawsuit that prompted the suspension of a Glenside priest this year has been withdrawn amid questions over his accuser’s credibility.
The civil case against Msgr. Michael Flood, 71, fell apart during a deposition last week of the South Jersey man, 48, who sued the priest and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia three years ago.
The man – identified in court filings as “John Broe #1” – had alleged that he had been abused dozens of times in the 1970s while a ninth grader at what was then Bishop John Neumann Catholic High School in South Philadelphia, where Flood was a religion teacher.
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