BURLINGTON (VT)
Burlington Free Press
December 11, 2018
By Elizabeth Murray
A man who says he was sexually abused as a boy by a priest serving at St. Ann Catholic Church in Milton has filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington alleging negligence, fraud, and “outrageous conduct.”
The man is asking for in excess of $75,000 in damages, in addition to any other damages deemed appropriate by a jury.
The lawsuit alleges that the Diocese’s actions in the man’s case were “utterly reprehensible, egregious and patently outrageous,” according to the legal complaint filed Friday.
The Diocese said it would respond to the Free Press’s request for comment on Tuesday, but no response had been received as of 8:15 a.m.
The man was an altar boy and parishioner at St. Ann’s Parish in Milton in the late 1970s and early 1980s, according to the complaint.
The man, who now lives in Texas, said he did not discover he had a personal legal action to bring against the Diocese until 2017. His complaint states that he has suffered “pain, emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation, loss of self-esteem, post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological injuries.”
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