MINNESOTA
The Journal
June 19, 2013
By Kevin Sweeney – Journal Editor , The Journal
NEW ULM – A lawsuit against the Diocese of New Ulm has been filed by a man who claims he was sexually abused by a priest, the Rev. Francis Markey, when he was pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Henderson in 1982.
The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday, takes advantage of a new law easing the state’s statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual abuse.
Markey, a native of Ireland, died last September in Ireland where he was awaiting trial for the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 1964. He was also named in a 2011 lawsuit brought by a man who claimed he had been abused while Markey was serving in St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Granite Falls in 1982. The Diocese of New Ulm was also named as a defendant in that suit, which was eventually dismissed.
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