Catholic diocese in Vermont responds to former altar boy’s abuse suit

VERMONT
The Republic

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: February 05, 2012

BURLINGTON, Vt. — The Roman Catholic diocese of Vermont says it could be put out of business, and constitutional protections of religious freedom could be violated by a priest-abuse lawsuit.

The Burlington Free Press (http://bfpne.ws/yZACU1 ) cites papers filed by the diocese in U.S. District Court in Burlington. They say paying more big damage awards to victims of long-ago priest sexual abuse could bring those results.

The diocese asks Judge William Sessions III to throw out a lawsuit filed in 2010 by a man alleging that as an altar boy he was molested in Rutland by a priest in 1974.

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