SPRINGFIELD (MO)
Springfield News-Leader
November 3, 2018
By Giacomo Bologna
It was cold and windy on Saturday morning as Gail Herbert stood outside the Catholic Center in Springfield, the place where she says she was sexually abused by a top diocesan official.
Gail Herbert and her husband, Jon, no longer want to be anonymous.
As the Herberts spoke about their “Jane Doe” lawsuit and the abuse allegedly perpetrated by the former director of family ministry for the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Catholic Diocese, Bishop Edward Rice came outside.
Rice appeared to record them with his cellphone.
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