PORTLAND (OR)
The Oregonian
By Aimee Green, The Oregonian
A federal judge has dismissed the Vatican from a lawsuit filed by a former Portland teenager who says he was sexually abused by a pedophile priest who was transferred from Ireland to Chicago and then Portland in an effort to sweep his past under the rug.
In a downtown Portland hearing Monday morning, U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman said the Vatican cannot be held financially liable for abuse allegedly suffered by a Portland victim, identified by the pseudonym John V. Doe, at the hands of Rev. Andrew Ronan in 1965 and 1966. Mosman ruled that’s because the Vatican wasn’t Ronan’s employer and didn’t have control over Ronan — or at least, there weren’t facts to prove that.
“It’s clearly a disappointment, but we’re definitely not discouraged,” said Jeff Anderson, the Minnesota attorney who is representing Doe.
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