MINNESOTA
Northlands News Center
By Dan Branovan
November 4, 2015
St. Paul, MN (NNCNOW.com) – A child sex abuse case against the Diocese of Duluth has garnered an $8.1 million verdict against them in a Ramsey County court room.
Father J. Vincent Fitzgerald was accused of sexually abusing William Weis several times in 1978 at St. Catherine’s Church in Squaw Lake, Minnesota which is part of the Duluth Diocese.
This is the first case under the Minnesota Child Victim Act to go forward.
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