CONCONNNATI (OH)
WCPO TV
Nov. 18, 2019
By Craig Cheatham, Paula Christian and Dan Monk
Christy Miller doesn’t want the Catholic Church’s money. She just wants the church to pay.
“It was never about the money for me. It was about justice,” she said. “If it hits their pocketbook, they’re more apt to change. That’s why the money plays a role.”
Miller sued the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 2003, alleging her high school religion teacher, the Rev. Thomas Brunner, sexually abused her for two years in the mid 1980s.
Brunner resigned in 2003 prior to the Vatican removing him from the priesthood for abusing teenage girls.
But that didn’t matter to the Ohio Supreme Court, which dismissed Miller’s case because she didn’t file before she turned 20, as required by state law on civil statute of limitations at the time.
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