SEATTLE (WA)
Courthouse News Service
By JUNE WILLIAMS
SEATTLE (CN) – The alleged victim of a pedophile priest asked the 9th Circuit to ignore the statute of limitations and revive his case against Portland’s archdiocese and archbishop.
While presiding at St. Charles Church in Portland, Ore., the Rev. Maurice Grammond allegedly sexually abused the anonymous plaintiff when he was a young parishioner in the late 1950s.
In 2000, the archdiocese issued an apology and settled a lawsuit with 25 men who claimed Grammond molested them. But John Doe says he didn’t come to terms with his abuse and history of depression until an “epiphany” in late 2007 or early 2008.
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