NEW YORK
Courthouse News Service
By MARLENE KENNEDY
ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) – A priest’s six-year sexual abuse of a Queens girl counts as multiple injuries under the diocese’s insurance policy, New York’s highest court ruled.
St. Kevin Church in Flushing, N.Y., suspended the Rev. James Smith in 2002 amid allegations of sexual abuse.
In a 2003 lawsuit, a woman claimed that Smith had been molesting her daughter, identified as Alexandra L., since 1996.
The mother worked as a cook at the St. Kevin rectory and allegedly brought Alexandra there after school on most weekdays and sometimes on the weekends.
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