ALASKA
Fairbanks News-Miner
By MARY BETH SMETZER
Staff Writer
A lawyer has filed four more civil sexual abuse lawsuits against two now-deceased Catholic priests who served in Western Alaska, bringing the total to 10 complaints.
One plaintiff, a man, filed an abuse claim against the Rev. Segundo Llorente, while two men and a woman filed claims accusing the Rev. Francis Nawn of molestation. Llorente and Nawn were both Jesuit priests.
The latest legal paperwork, filed Tuesday in Bethel Superior Court, pushes the total number of complaints to more than 85 that have been filed in little more than two years against Catholic clergy and affiliated staff by Anchorage attorney Ken Roosa.
Two of the men and a woman accuse Nawn of molesting them as children during the 1960s and '70s in Sheldon Point, now known as Nunam Iqua, or in Scammon Bay.
The amended complaint now lists 10 plaintiffs--Jack Doe 1-9 and Jackie Doe 1--two with allegations against Llorente and nine against Nawn.