DENVER (CO)
Rocky Mountain News
By Rocky Mountain News
August 23, 2005
Three men who say they were sexually abused by a former priest when they were youths have joined two others in suing the Archdiocese of Denver.
Brandon Trask, now 49 and living in California, and another 49-year-old man identified as "John Doe" filed seperate lawsuits in Denver District Court Tuesday, alleging they were molested by the priest, Harold Robert White.
And another man who claims he was abused by White also is suing the archdiocese. That suit alleges that White abused Greg Roberts of Fort Collins beginning in the late 1960s while Roberts was an altar boy at a Roman Catholic Church in Sterling, according to a draft of the suit provided by Herman & Mermelstein, a Miami-based law firm specializing in sexual abuse cases.
Archdiocese chancellor Francis Maier said he could not comment because church officials had not seen the complaints.
"The plaintiffs have put us in a position where they know we can't say anything," he said.