NEW JERSEY
Courier-Post
Written by
Jim Walsh
Courier-Post
CAMDEN — A former priest at the center of an ongoing clergy sex-abuse lawsuit against the Camden diocese has died.
The death of Joseph Shannon, 87, was disclosed in a court filing in a lawsuit brought by Mark Bryson, a North Carolina man who claims he was molested by Shannon in a Camden church more than 40 years ago.
Shannon, removed from the ministry in 1990, was the subject of four sex-abuse complaints, according to a brief filed Monday by the diocese.
The brief — which challenges Bryson’s claim that he repressed memories of childhood assaults — contends the deaths of key figures in the case raise concerns about the fairness of any trial.
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