The Orlando Diocese has been hit with more lawsuits by men who say they were abused by priests when they were children.
The documents only identified the men as John Does 1, 2 and 3. Each of them claimed the priests would get groom them, isolate them and abuse them.
At times, though, they said the abuse was far more flagrant and others in the community and within the church hierarchy knew about what was happening.
Two of the lawsuits named Bob Hoeffer as the abuser. Hoeffner was already accused of abuse by multiple men, including one who shot and killed Hoeffner and his sister in Palm Bay in 2024. The men said the abuse happened in the 2010’s.
The new claims against Hoeffner are older, dating back to the 1980’s. The victims said Hoeffer was known to live with boys and threatened to quit when he…
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