MINNESOTA
Duluth News Tribune
By Tom Olsen Today
More than half a century has passed, but Quin Buchtel says she still is dealing with the effects of being sexually abused by her priest.
Buchtel has long battled what she describes as severe chronic depression — requiring hospitalization at least four times — and said Monday that her life has been marked by a series of “questionable choices.”
“I would like to know what my life would’ve been had I not been abused by this priest,” she said. “I don’t know if what he did resulted in my anger, which turned ultimately into depression, or not. But I feel that it must’ve had some impact on my life as an adult.”
Buchtel, a 65-year-old social worker living in Olivia, Minn., filed a lawsuit Monday against the Diocese of Duluth, alleging that she was abused by the Rev. Charles Gormly in the early 1960s.
Her lawsuit is the fourth filed against the Duluth diocese under the Minnesota Child Victims Act, which opened a three-year window for victims of decades-old abuse to file claims.
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