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The Morning Call
By Riley Yates, Of The Morning Call
7:56 p.m. EDT, October 17, 2013
A South Korean teenager who was repeatedly sexually assaulted in a Pen Argyl dormitory for Pius X High School exchange students is suing the Diocese of Allentown, saying she told a priest about the abuse during confession, but it wasn’t reported.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Northampton County Court, comes more than a year after ACE Academy’s Richard Kim received five to 10 years in state prison for repeatedly abusing the then 14-year-old girl.
The suit charges the Catholic diocese and Pius X with failing to adequately protect the teen while she resided at ACE, which was run by Kim’s family and housed and mentored Korean students attending the high school.
During the time she was being sexually assaulted, the girl was attending confession at Pius X, and on four occasions disclosed the abuse to a priest, asking for advice on whom to tell and how to stop it, according to the suit.
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