INDIANA
ABC 57
By Melissa Hudson
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – A Notre Dame professor and priest is a defendant in a lawsuit filed in San Antonio, Texas alleging he and another priest sexually abused a minor in the 1980s.
The priests named in the suit are Father Jesus Armando Dominguez and Father Virgilio Elizondo.
Notre Dame confirmed Elizondo is on the faculty, according to a statement by University Spokesman Dennis K. Brown..
We can confirm that Father Elizondo is on the faculty, but we have just learned of the allegation. We are reserving further comment until we examine the plaintiff’s San Antonio filing and make further inquiries.
The lawsuit says while living in an orphanage near the Assumption Seminary of the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Father Dominguez, then still a student at seminary, began acting as a father figure to the victim and took him out to eat and to movies.
The victim alleges after these outings, Father Dominguez would take him back to the dormitory quarters and fondle him.
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