CONNECTICUT
Hartford Courant
By Edmund H. Mahony
A woman who says she was sexually abused as a minor by her church pastor’s son asserts in a new lawsuit that, by failing to act on her complaint, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and its employees permitted the abuse of additional children.
The unidentified accuser, in a suit filed in Superior Court in Fairfield County, claims she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Jesse Osmun while she was participating under Osmun’s supervision in a youth program at St. Peter’s Church in Milford.
Also named in the suit, brought by attorney Douglas Mahoney of Bridgeport, are Andrew Osmun, Jesse Osmun’s father and Rector of St. Peter’s Church; St. Peter’s Church, and the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.
The victim claims in the suit that she was abused at the church by Jesse Osmun when she was 13 years old in 2007. In 2010, Jesse Osmun began work for the Peace Corp in South Africa, where he was accused of sexually assaulting three girls, ages 3-6.
Jesse Osmun admitted abusing the children in Africa and, in 2012, was sentenced to 15 years in a U.S. prison under a federal law prohibiting U.S. citizens from traveling abroad to engage in illegal sexual activity.
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