INDIANAPOLIS (IN)
Indianapolis Star
By Kevin Corcoran
kevin.corcoran@indystar.com
A 43-year-old Indianapolis man filed a sexual abuse lawsuit Thursday in Marion Superior Court against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, a defrocked Roman Catholic priest and his former parish.
The suit, in which the plaintiff is identified as "John Doe CT," alleges that then-Rev. Harry Monroe sexually abused him at St. Catherine Catholic Church in 1977.
Monroe was assigned to St. Catherine from 1976 to 1979. The church was merged with St. James in 1993 to form Good Shepherd Catholic Church.
This lawsuit comes after one filed Sept. 8 in which a 40-year-old man living out of state alleged Monroe had molested him repeatedly while he was a student at St. Andrew Catholic School in 1976.
Both lawsuits seek unspecified monetary damages from the archdiocese, which faces nine other sexual abuse lawsuits.