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A former altar boy has filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against the Diocese of Brownsville.
The now 18-year-old victim filed the lawsuit at the Hidalgo County Courthouse on Thursday morning.
According to the lawsuit, the teen claims he was sexually abused by Ronaldo Mitchell Chavez.
The teen claims Chavez sexually abused him several times between 2010 and 2012 while serving as an altar boy.
Chavez worked as a deacon at at the San Cristobal Magallanes Catholic Church in Mission where he befriended and later sexually abused the boy.
Mission police arrested Chavez on a continuous sexual abuse of a child charge back in January.
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