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…