December 22, 2005

2 more claims of abuse filed against Denver Archdiocese

DENVER (CO)
Denver Post

The Archdiocese of Denver was sued Wednesday in two separate lawsuits brought by men who claimed that as altar boys they were molested by Catholic priests. One suit named former priest Harold Robert White as the perpetrator, and the other named the Rev. Leonard Abercrombie. Abercrombie died in 1994.

The suit naming White says that the plaintiff, "John Doe No. 5," was born in 1952 and that during the boy's high school years, White was his pastor at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Sterling. The lawsuit alleges the Sterling man was molested in the rectory of St. Anthony's as well as in White's car.

The other lawsuit says that Abercrombie's accuser was born in 1949 and that Abercrombie was the family's pastor at Sacred Heart Parish in Roggen. The alleged sexual assaults by Abercrombie took place on church grounds, in a small community church in Hudson and on a skiing trip, the suit alleges.

Posted by kshaw at December 22, 2005 05:33 PM