OREGON
The Oregonian
By Aimee Green, The Oregonian
on June 25, 2013
A 43-year-old man who says he was sexually abused by Oregon’s most notorious pedophile priest in the early 1980s filed a $12.25 million lawsuit Tuesday against the Archdiocese of Portland.
The man alleges he was abused by former priest Maurice Grammond from 1980 to 1982 at Our Lady of Victory in Seaside — at least 23 years after church officials began hearing reports that Grammond was molesting children. That included a 1957 report of making boys swim naked with him and “messing” with them.
The man was an altar boy, and 10 to 12 years old when he says Grammond abused him.
“(Grammond) devastated the lives and the souls of dozens of youngsters who loved their church and trusted their priest, and this case is no different,” said Portland attorney Kelly Clark, in a news release.
Clark and the man’s other attorney, Erin Olson, say that the man supressed the abuse until 2012, when he came to terms with it and the detrimental effects it has had on his life. Oregon law allows victims to sue for childhood abuse up until they reach age 40, or until five years after they realize the abuse has damaged them — whichever is later.
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