Lawsuit Against Dallas Jesuit High School Reveals Hotbed of Homosexual Abuse

Church Militant ^ | 8/28/19 | Anita Carey

[marshmallow]

At least eight accused priests worked at the school over the course of a decade

DALLAS (ChurchMilitant.com) - A former student is sending a message to the Catholic Church by demanding a jury trial for a lawsuit alleging abuse by the former president of a Dallas Jesuit high school.

Filed Monday in the Dallas County civil court, the victim, identified as John Doe, is alleging Fr. Patrick Koch, the president of Jesuit College Preparatory School (referred to in the suit as "the School") at the time, sexually assaulted him while he was a sophomore in the 1980s.

The lawsuit does not request a monetary figure for the victim's "lifelong and life-altering damage" as a result of the alleged sexual assault he suffered at the hands of Koch. Instead, it seeks to use the courts to end the cover-up maintained by the Church and others.

The suit names the school, the Jesuits of the New Orleans Province and four Texas dioceses — Dallas, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Galveston-Houston.

"This case is yet another attempt to seek accountability and justice for the massive systemic cover-up of sexual abuse that has been occurring in the Roman Catholic Church," the lawsuit notes. "Through discovery, this lawsuit will expose what the School and the Diocese knew — answers which to this point have been hidden from the public and John Doe."

In May, the diocese of Dallas was raided by the Dallas police after a detective claimed Church officials "thwarted" their investigation into their investigation of Fr. Edmundo Paredes. Paredes allegedly molested three boys in the 1990s and his current whereabouts are not known.

The lawsuit also claims Koch "did not and could not have acted alone."

"He was in the position to abuse John Doe because of the actions of the Defendants.....

[rcofdayton]

Yes, I believe it’s true. I subscribe to the Catholic League’s newsletter. Every year they discuss the number of credible accusations made. It is very small, especially when compared to before 2002. I am glad that McCarrick was removed. I am not sure if the allegations involved any post 2002 misconduct.

BTW, the Catholic League is not some group that is trying to cover up this scandal. Rather they report on it often.