LOUISIANA
The Advocate
BY BILLY GUNN
Acadiana bureau
February 25, 2013
LAFAYETTE — A former southwest Louisiana priest facing trial Sept. 16 on charges of sex crimes against boys from the late 1980s to the early 1990s “ought to be locked up for life,” an attorney for an alleged victim said Monday.
Felicia Peavy is one of two attorneys suing Mark Anthony Broussard and the Roman Catholic Church on behalf of her client, who is identified in court papers as John Doe I. The civil action was filed in January in U.S. District Court in New Orleans and seeks a total of $18 million in damages.
The lawsuit also lists the Vatican; the Archdiocese of New Orleans and its archbishop, the Most Rev. Gregory M. Aymond; the Diocese of Lake Charles; and others as defendants in the lawsuit.
“During the course of extending himself as a positive adult male role model, holy cleric and priest and spiritual advisor … Broussard raped and sexually molested, abused and exploited (the victim) on a daily basis during his preadolescent years from 1985 to 1988,” the lawsuit states.
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