PROVIDENCE (RI)
WPRI TV
Oct. 2, 2019
By Miles Montgomery, Brandon Truitt and Kait Walsh
A Florida man is suing the current and former leaders of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, claiming he was subjected to years of sexual abuse at the hands of a former priest and the diocese covered it up.
The lawsuit is a potential test case for the new law, passed in June, that extended the civil statute of limitations for sexual abuse.
The 53-year-old plaintiff alleges in the suit he was abused by Fr. Philip Magaldi, who is now dead, while he was an altar boy in North Providence in the late 1970s through the early 1980s.
In the 200-page lawsuit, the man alleges Magaldi touched him inappropriately between 100 and 300 times over the course of about five years.
Magaldi, the former pastor at Saint Anthony Church in North Providence, died in 2008. He was named on a list of “credibly accused” priests released by the diocese over the summer.
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