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	Eisenberg Had Sued Catholic Church, Alleging Abuse Associated Press, carried in WCAX December 1, 2007 http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=7436770 CONCORD, N.H. - The New Hampshire man charged with holding five people hostage at a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in 2002 alleging he had been molested by a priest years earlier. Court records and published reports say 46-year-old Leeland Eisenberg of Somersworth grew up in Groton, Massachusetts, and spent time in prison in Massachusetts. The Boston Globe reported today that he was 1 of more than 500 victims of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal who received payments in a landmark 2003 settlement with the Boston Archdiocese. Eisenberg's lawyer in the case did not return messages from The Associated Press about the case and its resolution. In his 2002 lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court, Eisenberg sued former Archbishop Bernard Law, alleging that a priest at St. Catherine Church in Westford, Massachusetts, molested him in the early 1980s. The priest denied abusing Eisenberg, who claimed the abuse when he was about 21. Eisenberg was charged yesterday with four counts of kidnapping, one count of criminal threatening and one count of fraudulent use of a bomb-like device after he allegedly took three Clinton campaign staff members, a volunteer and a child hostage in Clinton's Rochester campaign office. He was being held without bail pending arraignment by video Monday afternoon in Rochester District Court.
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