APPLETON (WI)
Post-Crescent
Written by
Jim Collar
Post-Crescent staff writer
APPLETON — Attorneys selected a jury Monday to determine whether Green Bay’s Roman Catholic diocese fraudulently misrepresented the risk of a priest who went on to molest two boys in 1978.
Brothers Troy and Todd Merryfield are suing the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay on allegations it knew about sexual abuse committed by John Feeney before 1978 and fraudulently failed to inform Freedom’s St. Nicholas Catholic Church of the dangers he posed to children.
Feeney was convicted in 2003 in Outagamie County of four counts of sexually assaulting the Merryfields, who were 12 and 14 at the time of the abuse. The Merryfields say they learned only after the criminal case that Feeney had sexually assaulted others.
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