FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel
By Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel
9:14 p.m. EDT, June 18, 2013
A new lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Miami accuses the pastor of a Coral Springs K-12 school of looking the other way while a young boy complained he was being molested by a music teacher.
Miguel Cala, 40, is already serving a 23-year prison term after pleading no contest to lewd and lascivious molestation charges last year. But the lawsuit filed Monday by Miami attorney Jeffrey Herman outlines new allegations against the convicted pedophile.
“We are alleging that this boy was raped and sodomized by Miguel Cala in the school at St. Andrew [Catholic School in Coral Springs], and also that Father George Puthusseril, who was the pastor of St. Andrew, was aware that this boy was being sexually abused by Miguel Cala,” Herman said at a news conference Tuesday.
The archdiocese denied the allegations related to Puthusseril.
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