Monday, November 16, 2009 - 8:29am
Trial begins in priest abuse case
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Updated Monday, November 16, 2009 - 6:25pm
The first priest sex abuse lawsuit filed under a Delaware law allowing alleged victims to pursue claims for abuse that happened decades ago is set for trial.
Opening statements were heard Monday in a lawsuit filed against the Oblates of St.
Francis de Sales by 63-year-old James Sheehan, who claims he was sexually abused as a boy
by one of the order's priests.
The trial is the first for a lawsuit filed under a 2007 law that created a two-year
window allowing claims of abuse to be brought even if the statute of limitations had
expired. More than 175 lawsuits were filed before the window closed this summer.
Sheehan already has settled with the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, which was a
co-defendant.
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