[markomalley]

Although there is no excuse for a member of the clergy (regardless of denomination) to use their position for sexual favors, I just wonder how many of these old cases are just stories being made up for the money?

(After all, if a Catholic priest is accused, he is guilty until proven innocent)

[markomalley]

for your lists

[Salvation]

I wonder how many more there are like this????

I'll bet many -- because they were hunted down by ambulance chasing attorneys.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Those who make false accusations should face treble penalty of those they accused, after triple retribution for any losses.

[siunevada]

Here's a similar story in the Rocky Mt. News:

Lawyers ditch client in suit against Catholic Diocese

Apparently there are plenty of legitimate victims:

Herman continues to represent 21 other former students of the now-closed Roncalli High School in Pueblo, who filed lawsuits in 2005 and 2006. They charge that they were molested by the same teacher, William Mueller, a brother with the Marianist Religious Order, between 1966 and 1971.

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Many others who filed suit claim that Mueller would ask them to stay after school to help him with an experiment for his master's thesis. Some claimed that he covered their faces with rags soaked with ether or chloroform and sexually assaulted them after they passed out.