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Houston Press
By Craig Malisow
Thu., Sep. 27 2012
Two more men have joined a lawsuit accusing a deceased Beaumont priest of molestation.
Identified as John Does, the two men join another anonymous plaintiff who sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont and Bishop Curtis Guillory in April over abuse that allegedly occurred in 1976 and 1977. The accused priest, Father Ronald W. Bollich, died in 1996 at age 59.
The new plaintiffs’ allegations include a night of near-naked “wrestling,” in which Bollich plied boys with alcohol while spending the night in Bollich’s quarters in the rectory. After telling two of the plaintiffs and at least one other boy to strip down to their underwear, Bollich wrestled with the boys, pinned them to his bed, and “began pawing and groping the boys’ genitals,” according to the suit.
In another alleged incident involving a new plaintiff, Bollich “pushed the boy’s head and mouth down towards his erect penis.”
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