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A national organization that supports victims of clergy abuse has praised a verdict that ordered the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay to pay $500,000 in a civil lawsuit involving a priest accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy.
A Las Vegas jury ruled Thursday the diocese was negligent in transferring John Patrick Feeney to a Nevada parish where he allegedly molested the boy.
“The brave victim in this case, John Doe 119, is to be commended for holding the Green Bay Diocese accountable for concealing and facilitating decades of child sex crimes. Children in Nevada and Wisconsin are safer today because of his courage,” a group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said in a statement released after the verdict.
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