MINNESOTA
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By Brittany Larson, News Reporter
A man who says he was sexually abused by an Irish priest inMinnesota decades ago is suing the New Ulm Diocese.
This morning Attorney Pat Noaker filed a lawsuit inBrown County on behalf of John Doe 103.
His client says in the lawsuit he was about 15 years old WhenFather Francis Markey abused him in 1982 while he served at a perish in Henderson.
Pat Noaker says, “This man came forward a few years agobut at that time Minnesota didn’t allow him to file a case because too muchtime has passed. It was a bad law.”
That law changed this year when Minnesota lawmakers passedthe Child Victims act allowing John Doe to file his case after 31 years.
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