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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS COUNTY • A former Catholic youth minister at the Immacolata School in Richmond Heights sexually abused a teenage girl there more than 13 years ago, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in St. Louis County Circuit Court.
“Jane Doe” accuses Kris D. Wilks, a former St. Louis County man who now lives in Pueblo, Colo., of sexually abusing her at the school at 8900 Clayton Road between September 2003 and March 2004 when she was 16 years old.
She is now 30; Wilks is 36.
The suit claims that at the time of the abuse, Wilks was an Immacolata School youth minister and an “employee or agent” of Life Teen Inc., a Eucharistic-centered nonprofit founded in 1985 that serves students in hundreds of Catholic parishes around the country.
In addition to naming Wilks and Life Teen as defendants, the suit also accuses the St. Louis Archdiocese and the Immacolata School of negligence and concealment of the alleged abuse. None could be reached for comment Wednesday.
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