DETROIT (MI)
WXYZ
February 13, 2020
Parishioners at Assumption Grotto Catholic Church are demanding their priest return to worship. They have now filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against their own archdiocese.
Father Eduard Perrone was barred in July of 2019 after sex abuse allegation.
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The lawsuit names the Archdiocese of Detroit, Roman Catholic Archbishop and Mike Bugarin. The lawsuit claims Bugarin is an internal sex abuse investigator for the church. The parishioners said in the lawsuit they’ve been defrauded.
“There’s a catholic service appeal fund that the archdiocese rusn and they expect,” said Christopher Kolomjec, the attorney representing the parishioners. “Every parish throughout the archdiocese contributes to these fund[s], its mandatory, it’s like a tax, and that’s the fund used to run the operations and programs including these investigations.”
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