ANCHORAGE (AK)
KTUU
Monday, December 19, 2005 - by Angela Unruh
Anchorage, Alaska - New sexual abuse accusations have been leveled against a former Kenai priest.
A Kenai woman going by the name ‘Jane Doe’ filed a lawsuit in the superior court for the state of Alaska, alleging eight years of sexual abuse at the hands of Roman Catholic priest, Father Robert Wells, who passed away in 1992.
The lawsuit claims wells abused Jane Doe sometime between 1974 and 1988 beginning when she was just 9 years old. It allegedly occurred while Wells served as a priest at Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Kenai.