IOWA CITY (IA)
KWQC
IOWA CITY, Iowa A former student at a Roman Catholic high school in Iowa City filed a lawsuit today (Tuesday) accusing the former principal of sexual abuse.
The lawsuit marks the second time this year that Lawrence Soens has been accused of molesting students during his tenure as principal at Regina High School in Iowa City.
The lawsuit also names the high school and the Davenport Diocese.
The diocese oversees the school and last fall paid nine-(m)-million-dollars to settle 37 lawsuits that accused several of its priests of molesting children at parishes across eastern Iowa in the last 50 years.
The lawsuit was filed in Scott County District Court. It accuses the diocese and church officials of failing to take proper disciplinary action against Soens and engaging in a pattern of covering up the improper conduct of priests.
Posted by kshaw at August 16, 2005 06:24 PM