NEW MEXICO
The New Mexican
By Rebecca Moss | The New Mexican Jul 6, 2017
A 50-year-old man has filed suit against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, claiming he was repeatedly molested in the 1970s by a priest who had a history of sexual abuse that the Catholic Church concealed.
The plaintiff, listed in court records only as John Doe 68, says he was sexually assaulted by the Rev. Jason Sigler at Immaculate Conception Parish in Las Vegas, N.M., for two years beginning in 1976. John Doe 68 was an altar boy for Sigler.
He claims in his suit that Sigler forced him into “hundreds of sexual abuse events, each a violation of criminal sexual penetration laws.”
Messages seeking comment from the archdiocese were not immediately returned.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in state District Court in Albuquerque, says the archdiocese knew of Sigler’s history of sexually abusing children before he was assigned to the parish in Las Vegas.
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