APPLETON (WI)
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APPLETON — A lawsuit brought by two childhood victims of clergy sexual abuse against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay will go before a jury for the second time next year.
Judge Nancy Krueger this week scheduled a May trial in Outagamie County Court in the civil case brought by brothers Todd and Troy Merryfield.
A jury found in the Merryfields’ favor in May and awarded the brothers $700,000. Krueger, however, granted the diocese a new trial after concluding that one of the jurors was biased. The Wisconsin Court of Appeals this week declined requests from both sides seeking review of decisions made after the verdict.
The Merryfields claim the diocese knew the Rev. John Feeney had a history of sexual misconduct when it installed him as a priest at Freedom’s St. Nicholas Church and falsely portrayed him as safe even though church officials knew he was a danger to children.
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