CALIFORNIA
NBC Los Angeles
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles faced new legal action Tuesday after a lawsuit was filed alleging sexual abuse by a former volunteer.
Alleged victim Robert Reynolds, 23, claims he suffered repeated acts of childhood sexual abuse, including multiple acts of sodomy at the hands of Timothy Lawrence Kovacs, a licensed family and marriage therapist who volunteered with St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Temple City, said Reynolds’ attorney, Michael Kinslow, at a press conference Tuesday.
Cardinal Roger Mahony and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are among those named in the lawsuit.
“It’s just horrendous. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to endure repeated acts of oral copulation and sodomy,” Kinslow said.
Reynolds spoke for the first time about the alleged abuse, which he said began when he was 13 years old.
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