SCRANTON (PA)
The Citizens Voice
By Stacy Brown, Staff Writer 12/15/2005
Attorneys for a retired Navy officer filed suit Tuesday against the Diocese of Scranton over a decades-old priest sex-abuse claim, saying a federal law created for soldiers supersedes any statute of limitation.
David Irvin, 41, of Georgetown, Ky., said he was abused over a number years beginning when he was 6 years old by the late Rev. Robert Caparelli of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Old Forge. The alleged abuse took place in the Lakeville home of Caparelli's parents, who were neighbors of Irvin, according to the lawsuit.
Irvin said he waited so long to file the suit out of fear of embarrassment for himself and for his family.