ALBUQUERQUE (NM)
Albuquerque Journal
November 8, 2018
By Colleen Heild
Five new childhood sexual abuse lawsuits have been filed against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe – two involving alleged Catholic priest assaults on girls, and one alleged victim coming forward more than 60 years after the abuse occurred.
Defendants include parishes in Albuquerque and in the northern New Mexico communities of Ranchos de Taos and Abiquiú and the Servants of the Paraclete, which ran a treatment center for pedophile priests in Jemez Springs.
The lawsuits, filed by the Albuquerque law firm of Brad Hall this week in state District Court in Albuquerque, contend the archdiocese caused childhood sexual abuse by priests and failed to prevent the misconduct, causing decades of harm to victims who suppressed what occurred to them as children.
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