MISSOURI
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS COUNTY • A new sexual abuse lawsuit has been filed against Chaminade College Preparatory School, over the actions of a now deceased Marianist Brother between 1968 and 1971.
According to the suit, John Woulfe engaged in the abuse while working as a guidance counselor, which is how he met the boy during his junior year of high school.
The suit accuses Woulfe of pulling the boy, identified in the suit as John Doe, out of class for college counseling sessions that turned sexual. It alleges school officials knew of the abuse and failed to stop it, and says that Woulfe had sexually assaulted at least one other boy at Chaminade before Doe.
It is the latest complaint to be filed against the school and more than a half dozen clerics there, according to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
And it is at least the third lawsuit against Woulfe alleging sexual abuse. The Missouri Supreme Court issued an opinion on a previous lawsuit involving Woulfe and another teacher at Chaminade College Preparatory, the Rev. William Christensen, in 2006. The lawsuit was first filed in 2002 by Michael Powel, a former student at the school.
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