UNITED KINGDOM
The News
Published on Thursday 17 May 2012
THE Catholic church is hoping to overturn a ruling in the case of a Waterlooville woman who claims she was abused by a priest as a child.
The 47-year-old woman who can only be identified as JGE says she was sexually abused by Father William Baldwin, while living at The Firs Children’s Home, in Waterlooville, for two years in the 1970s.
She is seeking compensation from the order of nuns who ran the home – The English Province of Our Lady of Charity – and the Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust.
The church had previously asked the High Court to consider whether they could be held responsible for the actions of their priests and ministers.
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