DALLAS (TX)
AZCentral.com
Associated Press
Jul. 23, 2005 12:00 AM
DALLAS - An NBC News correspondent has accused the Catholic archdiocese in Iowa of covering up sexual abuse he suffered while an altar boy.
Jim Cummins said he was abused by three priests in 1962, when he was 17, while an altar boy in Cedar Rapids, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Iowa.
In a written response this week, the archdiocese denied the allegations and asked that the lawsuit be dismissed, the Dallas Morning News said.
The archdiocese said even if the charges were true, the lawsuit was filed long after the statute of limitations, which is two years in Iowa, had passed.
Cummins filed the lawsuit last year, but it only became widely known this week when the archdiocese filed its response and identified Cummins as an NBC correspondent.