NEWMEXICO
Albuquerque Journal
By Olivier Uyttebrouck / Journal Staff Writer
Friday, August 12th, 2016
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico native has filed a lawsuit alleging he was sexually abused in the 1970s by a former priest who turned up in Morocco earlier this year, more than a quarter century after he vanished from his Albuquerque parish.
Arthur Perrault, who helped ignite the clerical abuse crisis in New Mexico in the 1990s, was served with an unrelated lawsuit in May at an English-language school in Tangier where he apparently worked at the time.
The new lawsuit, filed Aug. 4 in 2nd Judicial District Court in Albuquerque, alleges that an unidentified man was sexually abused by Perrault from 1975 to 1977, both on and off church property.
The man, who now lives outside New Mexico, was abused when he was a child parishioner at Our Lady of Assumption Parish in Albuquerque, the suit says.
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