DAVENPORT (IA)
KWQC
DAVENPORT, Iowa A man claiming he was the vicim of group sex parties held by Roman Catholic priests in the 1960s has won a court judgement of nearly two (M) million dollars against the estate of one of the priests.
The man identified in court records as John Doe Three told a Scott County judge Friday that he was sexually abused 30 to 40 times by the Reverand Theodore Geerts, a priest in the Davenport Diocese.
Geerts died last year in California.
District Judge C-H Pelton says a default judgment had been entered against Geerts in 2003 after he did not respond to the man's lawsuit.
The man's attorney says yesterday's hearing was to established damages for past and future medical expenses, lost wages and pain and suffering caused by the abuse.
The man says the abuse started with former priest James Janssen when he was 12 years old in Fort Madison and continued until his family moved to Davenport when he was 15.
Posted by kshaw at June 18, 2005 07:50 AM