LAS VEGAS (NV)
KOLO
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A court in Las Vegas ordered the Catholic Diocese in Green Bay, Wisconsin to pay a sex abuse victim a half-million dollars.
The court found the church neglected to protect the boy from known sex offender and former priest John Patrick Feeney.
The lawsuit involved one person, known in the Nevada legal system as John Doe 119. The plaintiff’s lawyer says John Patrick Feeney abused the teenage boy soon after leaving Green Bay.
“[Feeney] then ended up landing in Las Vegas, at St. Francis de Sales, where this kid and his family were parishioners,” says the plaintiff’s attorney, Jeff Anderson. “And Feeney laid his hands on this kid in a way that no priest ever should.
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