Emotional response in Fargo from sexual assault victim

FARGO (ND)
Valley News Live

Jul 11, 2019

By Joshua Peguero

A woman is speaking publicly for the first time Thursday accusing a former North Dakota priest of sexual assault.

Kateri Marion, 33, was emotional inside the law offices of O’Keeffe, O’Brien, Lyson, and Foss describing what she says was a sexual assault in July of 2016 in Belcourt, N.D.

“It is time that we unite. It is time that we stand together and stand strong. Stop these priests from doing this, stop the church from hiding this,” Marion said.

In a lawsuit she filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fargo, she accuses Father Michael Wight of violating the relationship they had developed.

Her suit details several allegations, including that when she complained to the St Ann’s Catholic Church in Belcourt of the assault she was blamed for it.

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