APPLETON (WI)
San Antonio Express-News
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A jury has awarded two brothers $700,000 in a fraud trial against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay.
The Outagamie County jury found the diocese responsible Monday for concealing a former priest’s history of child molestation.
Brothers Todd and Troy Merryfield sued the diocese in 2008, alleging the diocese was aware former priest John Feeney sexually assaulted others before 1978, when it assigned him to Freedom’s St. Nicholas Church. Feeney was convicted in 2004 for the sexual assaults of the Merryfields and has already served his prison sentence.
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