WASHINGTON (PA)
Observer-Reporter
December 7, 2019
By Scott Beveridge
https://observer-reporter.com/news/localnews/north-franklin-township-man-files-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-against-pittsburgh/article_0afaaf32-1856-11ea-a6f0-37935fd6eaa2.html
A North Franklin Township man Friday sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh seeking damages from alleged sexual abuse by a priest assigned to a Washington church in the 1970s.
The six-count lawsuit filed in Washington County Court of Common Pleas accuses the diocese of fraud and negligence for allowing the abuse by Thomas McKenna when he served at Immaculate Conception, court records show.
The victim’s attorney, Paul A. Tershel of Washington, said in court documents the injuries the victim suffered were “so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to tolerate them.”
The victim claims he was first sexually assaulted by the priest when he was around the ages of 11 or 12 between 1973 and 1975 when he was an altar boy and worked at the church cemetery, the court record indicates.
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