Green Bay Diocese on trial

APPLETON (WI)
WTAQ

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ)-Jury selection today in Appleton in a civil fraud trial against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. Todd and Troy Merryfield said they were molested as young boys in 1978 by former priest John Patrick Feeney when he was at Saint Nicholas Catholic Church in Freedom. The brothers say the diocese had moved Feeney from parish-to-parish without warning parishioners about previous sexual abuse he had committed.

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