ALTOONA (PA)
Tribune Review

December 18, 2017

By Stephen Huba

The attorney for a Blair County woman who sued a Catholic priest is considering an appeal now that a judge has thrown out the lawsuit.

Blair County Common Pleas Judge Jolene Kopriva, whose term expires at the end of the year, said Renee Rice’s civil suit was filed after the statute of limitations had expired.

“I intend to review with my client her right to appeal Judge Kopriva’s opinion,” Altoona attorney Richard Serbin said in a statement.

Rice and her sister, Cheryl Haun, sued the Rev. Charles Bodziak last year over allegations that he fondled them in the 1970s, when they were ages 7 and 9. At the time, he was serving at St. Leo’s Catholic Church in Altoona.

The sisters also sued the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, which was the subject of an investigation by the Pennsylvania attorney general…