CHARLESTON (SC)
WCSC-TV
January 11, 2021
A lawsuit filed against the Diocese of Charleston alleges abuse dating back decades.
The new suit is the second filed against the diocese in a week’s time.
The lawsuit was filed by a man who claims a priest sexually abused him over span of two years in the mid-1970s while the defendant was a student at St. John’s Catholic Church and Cathedral School.
The victim says in the suit he was 13 when he he started to be abused on a weekly basis. He said Frederick Hopwood, a priest, would put his hands down the victim’s pants and molest him.
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