INDIANA
Indianapolis Star
By Kevin Corcoran
kevin.corcoran@indystar.com
A 40-year-old man living out of state filed a sexual abuse lawsuit Thursday in Marion Superior Court against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, a defrocked Roman Catholic priest and his former parish school.
The suit, in which the plaintiff is not identified, alleges that then-Rev. Harry Monroe sexually abused him while he was a student at St. Andrew Catholic Church's school in 1976.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages from the archdiocese, which faces eight other sexual abuse lawsuits.
Patrick Noaker, the St. Paul, Minn., attorney handling this lawsuit and three others against the archdiocese, and archdiocesan officials say they do not know Monroe's whereabouts.
"The abuse was quite significant," said Noaker, whose client says his memories of the abuse returned in September 2003. "He had a form of amnesia or repressed memory."