NEW MEXICO
The New Mexican
By Tom Sharpe
The New Mexican
An Albuquerque man is suing the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and others, claiming the church failed to do anything about the priests who molested him during his childhood more than 25 years ago in Alamogordo.
Eran Joseph McManemy “has only recently begun to realize that his shattered life is, in fact, a direct result of the abuse he suffered at the ‘holy hands’ of these three sick priests,” says the complaint filed Monday in state District Court in Santa Fe.
The complaint alleges the Rev. Wilfred Diamond began to sexually abuse McManemy soon after he became an altar boy in St. Jude’s Parish in Alamogordo in 1987, when McManemy was 8 or 9 years old.
Diamond retired in 1988, and his temporary successor did not molest McManemy, the complaint says, but when the Rev. Daniel R. Barfield was appointed permanent pastor in 1990, Barfield “also sexually, physically and psychologically assaulted and abused Eran,” the complaint alleges.
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