NEW MEXICO
Courthouse News Service
By EVAN PRIESKOP
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (CN) – A former Catholic school student claims in court that his principal sexually assaulted him “several times a week … under threat of withholding his diploma.”
John Doe claims Cathedral High School principal Stephen Furches sexually assaulted him repeatedly during his last two years at the school in El Paso, Texas, in the late 1980s.
Doe sued NOSF Inc. fka the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Lafayetta, La., the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, and Furches, in Santa Fe County Court.
Doe claims that Furches “sought out John Doe on a regular basis, using his authority as principal to call him out of class or approach him in the school locker in order to engage in inappropriate contact. Several times each week, Furches would isolate John Doe in his office or the shower after swim practice to sexually abuse him by reaching into his pants and touching his genitals.”
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