Beaumont Diocese named in sexual abuse case

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Beaumont Enterprise

A Dallas County man has filed a sexual abuse claim against the Catholic Diocese of Beaumont, alleging he was sexually abused by a priest in the late 1970s.

The plaintiff, who is identified only as John Doe 104 in the legal suit filed in a Jefferson County district court on April 12, claims the late Ronald Bollich routinely sexually assaulted him in 1976 and 1977.

Bollich was assigned to the Sacred Heart Parish in Nacogdoches, which was governed by the Beaumont Diocese, at the time of the allegations, according to the court filing.

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