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Southeast Texas Record
January 7, 2014
By MARILYN TENNISSEN
The Catholic Diocese of Beaumont recently settled a civil suit alleging a priest abused young boys for 30 years.
The suit was filed April 12, 2012, against the diocese and Bishop Curtis Guillory. It alleges the Rev. Ronald Bollich abused six boys in at least three parishes over three decades. Diocese of beaumont crest
Guillory and the diocese were accused of negligence for keeping Bollich on staff when it “knew or should have known he had a propensity to molest boys,” the suit states.
The details of the settlement, reached Dec. 11, are not disclosed.
Bollich was a priest from 1964 until his death in April 1996. He worked parishes in Jefferson County, Orange County and Nacogdoches County, according to the final petition in the case, filed Nov. 15, 2013. His duties took him to churches in Beaumont, Bridge City, Port Arthur, Groves, Silsbee, Buna, Moral, Nacogdoches and Chireno, the petition reads.
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