SIOUX XITY (IA)
nwestiowa.com
October 19, 2019
By Mark Mahoney
A Catholic priest with N’West Iowa ties who died in May has been accused of sexual abuse.
In a 13-page civil complaint filed on Wednesday, Oct. 9, in Woodbury County District Court in Sioux City against the Diocese of Sioux City, 60-year-old Samuel Heinrichs accused the Rev. Dale Koster of physically and sexually abusing him when he was about 10 years old.
According to the lawsuit, Koster’s alleged sexual abuse of Heinrichs started in 1968 and continued through at least 1970, and it happened inside the school and rectory office of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church northwest of Carroll.
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