Thursday, June 23, 2005

Suit alleges sex abuse by priest who died in 2003

A St. Louis-area man sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis, Archbishop Raymond Burke and a dead priest Wednesday, claiming the church covered up sexual abuse by the priest in the early 1970s.
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[Lawyer Ken] Chackes said the man, a husband and father who lives in the St. Louis area, repressed the memories of the abuse until he heard about allegations against another priest, with whom he had counseled while contemplating a return to the church. {all emphasis mine)
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Repressed memories...Right!!! I wonder what effect money (or the promise of money) has on bringing such repressed memories to light? Or perhaps it's some other motivating factor which causes the buried memories to suddenly surface?

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