di-ve news
October 25, 2006
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Miami/Malta (di-ve news)--October 25, 2006 -1730CEST--Another former altar boy said that he was sexually abused in the 1970s by Rev. Anthony Mercieca, the same retired Catholic priest who acknowledged fondling former Rep. Mark Foley.
The new allegations against the Gozitan priest were made by a man who lived in North Miami and was an altar boy at St. James Catholic Church, where Mercieca worked, attorney Jeffrey Herman said.
Herman said he planned to file a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Archdiocese of Miami. His client, now 40 and identified in the lawsuit only as John Doe No. 26, says Mercieca abused him when he was about 12 years old.
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"He had been thinking about it before Foley came forward, and then when Foley came out and the church encouraged other victims to come forward, he decided to come forward," Herman said.
Mercieca, 69, now lives in Gozo.
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