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	Ex-Priest Won't Attend Trial of Suit against Diocese By Associated Press, carried in WCAX WCAX [Vermont] June 15, 2007 http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=6662801&nav=4QcS Burlington (AP) - A former priest whose alleged molestation of a teenage boy in the 1970s is at the center of a civil suit that comes to trial next week won't be there in court when it does. Alfred Willis, who now lives in Leesburg, Virginia, has told Diocese of Burlington lawyers he won't travel to Vermont for the trial of a suit brought his alleged victim against the Diocese. The victim says Willis performed a sex act on him at a Latham, New York motel in 1977, when Willis was a church deacon, and that Willis tried to molest him at the boy's home in Derby later that year. Willis, who is not named as a defendant in the suit, has been accused of molesting altar boys in Burlington, Milton and Montpelier, and he was defrocked in 1980. The trial starts Wednesday in Chittenden County Superior Court. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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