சிறுவனை வல்லுறவு செய்த கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் ஆஜராக மறுப்பு

1970களில் ஒரு இளம் சிறுவனை வல்லுறவு செய்ததாக குற்றம் சாட்டப்பட்ட பாதிரியார் அவர் மீது நீதிமன்றத்தில் தொடுக்கப்பட்ட வழக்கில் ஆஜராக மறுத்திருக்கிறார்.

விர்ஜினியாவில் இந்த வழக்கு நீதிமன்றத்தில் இருக்கிறது.

Ex-priest won't attend trial of suit against Diocese

Associated Press - June 15, 2007 7:05 AM ET

BURLINGTON (AP) - A former priest whose alleged molestation of a teenage boy in the 1970s is at the center of a civil suit that comes to trial next week won't be there in court when it does.

Alfred Willis, who now lives in Leesburg, Virginia, has told Diocese of Burlington lawyers he won't travel to Vermont for the trial of a suit brought his alleged victim against the Diocese.

The victim says Willis performed a sex act on him at a Latham, New York motel in 1977, when Willis was a church deacon, and that Willis tried to molest him at the boy's home in Derby later that year.

Willis, who is not named as a defendant in the suit, has been accused of molesting altar boys in Burlington, Milton and Montpelier, and he was defrocked in 1980.

The trial starts Wednesday in Chittenden County Superior Court.

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