SEATTLE (WA)
Seattle Times
By Mike Carter
Seattle Times staff reporter
The Archdiocese of Seattle is asking that the most recent lawsuit alleging it was complicit in the sexual abuse of an O’Dea High School student by a pedophile teacher be moved to bankruptcy court in New York, where the Christian Brothers order that employed the alleged abuser has sought Chapter 11 protection.
Archdiocese attorney Michael Patterson said the move is a tactical one aimed at asset protection. It comes as the archdiocese continues to defend itself against civil actions seeking damages for the alleged sexual abuse of dozens, if not hundreds, of boys by teachers belonging to the Christian Brothers religious order.
The Congregation of Christian Brothers in North America, the order that runs O’Dea High School — the archdiocese’s flagship school for boys — filed bankruptcy in New York in April as it sought protection from mounting legal claims, mostly from Seattle, but also involving children in Illinois and Michigan.
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