FLORIDA
Huffington Post
After weeks of repeated calls for his dismissal, the Archdiocese of Miami indefinitely removed Father Rolando Garcia from pastoring his congregation as new claims of underaged sexual abuse were brought to light.
Tony Simmons, 34, stood before media at St. Agatha Catholic Church Wednesday to publicly reveal himself as the “John Doe No. 95” who filed the latest lawsuit against Fr. Garcia and South Florida’s embattled archdiocese.
Since August, Garcia has been named by several men who were purported victims of abuse as boys, and the priest has a history of similar sordid accusations dating back several years.
In the latest suit, Simmons charges the Catholic clergyman molested him for several years as a teenaged runaway, abuse which started in 1994. He says the priest began performing sex acts on him soon after Simmons sought his counsel at age 16, and that the abuse continued for several years.
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