CALIFORNIA
The Press Democrat
By GLENDA ANDERSON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
August 22, 2013
A second civil lawsuit has been filed accusing a Lakeport Catholic priest, now deceased, of sexual molestation.
The lawsuit accuses the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa and St. Mary Immaculate Parish in Lake County of failing to protect a boy, then 16, from a known sexual predator.
“The Diocese of Santa Rosa possessed knowledge of numerous incidents of inappropriate sexual contact and conduct by Father Ted Oswald with minors” before the plaintiff was molested, according to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Sonoma County Superior Court.
In addition, the youth “essentially was being abused at the same time other people were mounting lawsuits” against Oswald, said Skye Daley, the plaintiff’s attorney. Daley is part of an Irvine-based law firm that specializes in sexual abuse cases.
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