TEXAS/INDIANA
WSBT
[with video[
Annie Chang
NOTRE DAME, Ind. –
Former students of Fr. Virgilio Elizondo, the Notre Dame professor and Texas priest accused of sexually abusing a boy in the 1980s, spoke to WSBT 22 about their teacher Wednesday.
Elizondo is named in a lawsuit filed last week in San Antonio. Court documents filed on behalf of the plaintiff, an unnamed man, accuse two priests of sexually molesting the man when he was a child.
The plaintiff, an orphan, claims he was regularly abused by a local priest named Fr. Jesse Dominguez, over a period of two years, until Dominguez moved away.
The plaintiff also claims he tried to confide in Elizondo about those experiences in 1983. The two were in the car together. That’s when, according to court documents, Elizondo allegedly reached over, kissed the minor, and began to “fondle the Plaintiff’s genitals.”
The suit names the ArchDiocese of San Antonio, accusing officials of trying to cover up the plaintiff’s story, as well as the two priests.
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