ALASKA
KTUU
Thursday, October 20, 2005 - by Megan Baldino
Anchorage, Alaska - A Jesuit superior, Rev. John Whitney, describes a recent string of clergy sex abuse lawsuits filed against his order as “a tough time.”
Another Jesuit, Rev. James Laudwein, is accused of abusing a young woman in Alaska in 1980. According to Whitney, Laudwein also fathered a child in Alaska.
According to a lawsuit filed in Bethel today, in 1980, a woman only identified as “Jana Doe” was sexually abused by Laudwein in the confessional in St. Marys School chapel.