SYRACUSE (NY)
The Post-Standard
By Jim O’Hara, The Post-Standard
on December 10, 2012
Syracuse, NY – A lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse – involving allegations four young boys from Montgomery County were sexually abused by a priest – can go forward in its abbreviated fashion, a state appeals court has ruled.
The state Supreme Court Appellate Division in Rochester recently upheld rulings Syracuse Justice Brian DeJoseph made last year in the case of the Rev. John Broderick.
DeJoseph dismissed part of the lawsuit seeking to hold the diocese responsible as Broderick’s employer, noting the courts in New York have clearly concluded sex abuse is not within the scope of a priest’s employment to hold any employer liable.
DeJoseph also had ruled the diocese had no fiduciary relationship with the victims’ family and that the victims’ father had shown no specific harm to him to justify his personal claims in the lawsuit.
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