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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS • A new sexual abuse lawsuit has been filed against the Archdiocese of St. Louis and Archbishop Robert Carlson over a priest who has been accused multiple times in the past.
Father Leroy Valentine, also a defendant, is accused in the suit of repeatedly abusing a young student who attended the Church of the Immacolata between approximately 1977 and 1981, starting when the boy was age 11.
Attorneys from Chackes, Carlson and Gorovsky filed the suit last week in St. Louis County Circuit Court. The petition says Valentine told the boy the abuse was “special training” required for becoming an altar boy.
Valentine has been accused of childhood sexual abuse multiple times in the past.
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