PORTLAND (ME)
Associated Press via the Register Citizen
December 15, 2019
A man who says he was abused by a priest has no legal argument to compel the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland to pay for his psychological counseling, a Maine judge has ruled.
David Gagnon, formerly of Biddeford, sued the Portland diocese in small claims court when it avoided paying his $875 counseling bill.
Gagnon, 54, says he was abused by a priest for more than five years when he was a teenager in the 1980s. He reported the abuse to church officials in 1991. Bishop Joseph Gerry issued a letter in 2002 saying that survivors of clergy sexual abuse would be reimbursed for counseling.
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