MINNESOTA
Northlands News Center
[with video]
By Nick Minock
October 19, 2015
St. Paul, MN (NNCNOW.COM) — One of the several lawsuits filed in connection with sexual abuse in the Catholic Church began Monday morning in St. Paul.
The lawsuit, that is filed by Jeff Anderson and Associates, involves the Diocese of Duluth.
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The lawsuit claims that Father J. Vincent Fitzgerald abused a teenage altar boy in 1978.
The lawsuit claims the now deceased priest molested the boy “on a daily basis.”
The priest was working at St. Catherine’s Church at the time under the Diocese of Duluth.
The lawsuit is set to go to trial.
“Victims of sexual abuse who come forward to tell their stories do a public service,” the Diocese of Duluth said in a statement. “They help society seek justice. They help all of us, including the church, to do a better job of preventing sexual abuse.”
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