KANSAS
Kansas City Star
BY IAN CUMMINGS
icummings@kcstar.com
A Missouri man has filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against a priest who formerly worked at a Roeland Park church.
The suit, filed earlier this week, alleges that in the mid-1980s a St. Agnes Catholic Parish priest abused the victim, who was then between 15 and 17 years old.
The suit says the cleric held parties at a Table Rock lake house where he provided liquor to minors and sexually abused them, at times taking the victim on trips to California, Hawaii and the Cayman Islands.
The victim, now in his 40s, lives in Missouri, according to Rebecca Randles, the Kansas City attorney who filed the case. The priest was identified in the lawsuit only by the initials J.H.W., Jr.
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