FORT LAUDERDALE (FL)
Sun-Sentinel
By Ginelle G. Torres
Miami Bureau
Posted August 18 2005
A Fort Lauderdale man has accused the Rev. Neil Doherty of drugging and raping him several times in the late 1960s when he was about 11, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the Archdiocese of Miami.
The man, referred to as John Doe No. 21, met Doherty while receiving counseling through the Catholic Welfare Bureau, the lawsuit said.
"It's been difficult my entire life living with this," the man said via speakerphone at a news conference.
"I cannot imagine how he was not stopped from doing this to other people."
According to the suit, Doherty took the boy to numerous houses in Broward County and to his mother's home in Palm Beach County, where the priest took other boys.