OREGON
The Register-Guard
By Greg Bolt
The Register-Guard
Published: Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013
A one-time Eugene man is suing the Methodist Church for $4.5 million over allegations that he was sexually abused as a youth by a Eugene pastor who later died from AIDS.
The suit, filed today in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleges that former Pastor William Walker of First United Methodist Church sexually assaulted the unnamed victim when he was about 11 years old and his family attended the Eugene church. It claims the abuse caused extreme physical and psychological damage, the effects of which continue to haunt the man, who is now in his late 30s.
A spokesman for the Oregon-Idaho Conference of the United Methodist Church, which is based in Portland and is named as the defendant in the suit, said today that the church has not yet been served with a copy of the suit and cannot yet comment on it.
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