Historic Lawsuit Filed Against The Vatican (Holy See) for Knowingly Harboring and Protecting New York Priest and Child Sex Abuser
March 10 2020
NEW YORK, March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – In an historic lawsuit, the Vatican (Holy See) has
been named as a defendant for turning a known pedophile priest loose in several Roman Catholic dioceses and institutions, allowing him to abuse yet more children in the Roman Catholic Church's care, and then protecting him until his death. The suit is believed to be one of the only civil cases to charge the Church with providing safe harbor to a priest the Church knew was a pedophile, because, prior to his ordination, he had already pled guilty to sexually abusing a minor-boy. The suit alleges that the Church subsequently moved the convicted priest to the Archdiocese of New York.
While the Holy See has been named as a defendant in similar cases, the claim filed today in the Southern District of New York – on behalf of a now 52-year-old New York man – is one of the only cases in which the Roman Catholic Church knowingly transported the priest to Vatican City to live out the rest of his life without facing prosecution in the United States for his crimes. In fact, in 2003, after his removal, charges were filed against the priest for allegedly sexually abusing young boys during a short stay in the Archdiocese of Boston.
Filed by Matthews & Associates law firm of Texas and D'Arcy Johnson Day of New York, the case alleges that Reverend Barry F. Bossa abused young boys with the full knowledge and protection of all levels of the Roman Catholic Church. Other defendants named include Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, the Archdiocese of New York, the Archbishop of New York, and the Society of Catholic Apostolate.
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