FLORIDA
NBC Miami
By Julia Bagg
Friday, Mar 23, 2012
A South Florida man who claims he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest while he was an altar boy in the 1970s has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Miami.
Attorney Ron Weil says his client, a Miami man who is approximately 49-years old, was repeatedly sexually abused at the hands of William Romero, while Romero was a priest at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Coral Gables.
Weil says the abuse began when his client was about eight and continued from 1971 to 1975 inside Romero’s living quarters at the church, as well as at a home in Lake Worth.
“He’s not ready” to talk about the abuse, Weil said during a news conference Friday.
Weil said his client never told anyone about the abuse while it happened, and said he suffered “traumatic amnesia,” a condition where his memory of the incidents was repressed for more than three decades.
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