WASHINGTON
Yakima Herald-Republic
By Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic
dmeyers@yakimaherald.com
YAKIMA, Wash. — A man suing the Diocese of Yakima for alleged rape by a deacon had made significant progress overcoming abuse as a child but was dealt a serious setback by a subsequent incident involving the deacon when he was a teen, an expert witness testified Tuesday in federal court.
Randall L. Green, who was retained by the plaintiff’s attorneys, said the man had received “fortuitous” counseling at age 12.
But Green told U.S. District Judge Edward Shea that the plaintiff, identified in court records as John Doe, lost all that progress after the July 1999 incident in Zillah.
“The shock waves (from the incident) were thermonuclear, psychologically and physiologically, for Mr. Doe,” Green testified on the first day of the second week of the trial.
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