SEATTLE (WA)
KGW
09/29/2005
Associated Press
Nine men have filed a complaint against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle in King County Superior Court, saying they suffered sexual and physical abuse at an orphanage and high school overseen by the archdiocese.
The complaint, dated Wednesday, names a half-dozen priests who worked at Briscoe Memorial School in Kent and O'Dea High School in Seattle between 1950 and 1979.
"Abuses were systemic and pervasive," the complaint said. "Boys were constantly subjected to appalling acts of physical violence and sexual abuse."
Those acts included forced sex and being beaten with fishing rods in the shower, the complaint said.