MINNESOTA
KARE
[with video]
MINNEAPOLIS – In a case of Catholic Church versus Catholic Church, a clergy sex abuse lawsuit pits one diocese against another.
In a rare legal move, the Diocese of New Ulm is suing another diocese and a religious order, accusing both of sending a priest to New Ulm in the early 1980s without telling the diocese that the priest had long history of being accused of child sexual abuse.
The New Ulm Diocese lawsuit stems from another lawsuit filed in 2013 by a man named in court documents as John Doe 103, who says Markey groped him and his two brothers when Markey was invited to his family’s home for dinner in 1982. The man asked that MPR News and KARE-11 hide his face to protect his family. He says at the time of the alleged assaults, Markey was filling in at rural churches in Henderson and Jessenland. John Doe 103’s family attended both churches.
“He was at our parish for like seven to ten days and he was in our house for two hours and he abused three people,” said John Doe 103 in an interview.
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