MILWAUKEE (WI)
Duluth News Tribune
RYAN NAKASHIMA
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE - Two victims of clergy abuse filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing the Archdiocese of Milwaukee of fraud and saying a former official of the archdiocese who now serves as bishop of Superior helped cover up the offending priest's history of abuse.
The male victims were minors when they were abused on "dozens of occasions" by the late Rev. Siegfried Widera from 1973 to 1976, said Peter Isely, a spokesman for a victims group called the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
The abuse occurred after Widera had been convicted of sexual perversion with a teenager in 1973 and after the archdiocese transferred him without warning the public to the St. Andrew's parish in Delavan from Port Washington, the suit said.
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