MONTANA
Great Falls Tribune
Eighteen new victims added their names to litigation against the Helena Diocese and Ursuline nuns for abuse they allege took place when they were children at Catholic parishes and boarding schools in Montana, according to a Tuesday news release from their Montana attorney, Vito de la Cruz.
The amended complaint adding the new victims was filed in Montana’s First Judicial District Court in Lewis and Clark County.
“Some of the students were day students and some boarded,” de la Cruz stated. “And some were abused not by priests, but by nuns who acted alone or in despicable cahoots with clergy.”
The amended complaint contends the priests and nuns used their positions as authority figures at schools and parishes to “molest, exploit and abuse children.”
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