SANTA FE (NM)
Santa Fe New Mexican
November 9, 2018
By Phaedra Haywood
Five new lawsuits were filed against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe this week by people who say they suffered lifelong problems after being sexually assaulted as children by Catholic clergy in Central and Northern New Mexico.
Three of the suits involve people who allege they were assaulted by priests in Albuquerque, one involves allegations against an Abiquiú priest and one involves allegations against a priest formerly serving in Ranchos de Taos.
The archdiocese did not respond to a phone message and email seeking comment for this story.
“These men and women in our communities carried the secret of their sexual abuse by the priests around all their lives, having been shamed and warned about telling anyone, living with various levels of inexplicable anxiety or depression, and now for the first time are coming forward and getting professional help,” said Levi Monagle, an attorney in the Law Offices of Brad D. Hall, which filed the complaints Thursday in state District Court in Albuquerque.
The lawsuits allege abuses occurred as long ago as 1950 and as recently as the late 1980s.
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