WEST VIRGINIA
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — An aide to West Virginia’s Catholic bishop has been ordered to testify in a clergy sexual abuse trial under way in Philadelphia after a state judge declared him “a necessary and material witness.”
Ohio County Circuit Judge Ronald Wilson issued the ruling late Thursday, and Monsignor Kevin Quirk’s attorney, William Kolibash, provided it to the Associated Press on Friday.
Kolibash referred further questions to the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.
“We needed to have a valid legal process, which we do now have,” the diocese said in an e-mail. “Accordingly, Monsignor Quirk will appear.”
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