Diocese settles suit alleging abuse by priest

MISSOURI
Kansas City Business Journal

Dec 23, 2013

Staff
Kansas City Business Journal

The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and the Missionaries of the Precious Blood agreed to settle a suit alleging sexual assault by a priest, The Kansas City Star reports.

The diocese and religious order each will pay $65,000 as part of the settlement with the unnamed plaintiff. The plaintiff alleged that the Rev. James Urbanic sexually assaulted him in the mid-1970s, when the plaintiff was a student at Bishop LeBlond High School in St. Joseph.

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