OREGON
Oregonian
By Aimee Green | agreen@oregonian.com
on June 24, 2014
A man in his mid-50s who says he was abused as a boy by Oregon’s most prolific pedophile priest — Maurice Grammond — filed an $8.1 million lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Portland in federal court Tuesday.
The man, who now lives in California, says that when he was age 6 to 9 he was raped at his home and at the rectory at Our Lady of Victory by Grammond. He estimates he was sexually assaulted 10 to 20 times from 1969 to 1972.
Grammond grew close to the boy and his three brothers after their mother died, said Portland attorney Kristian Roggendorf, who filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Portland.
Roggendorf said this latest victim to come forward brings the number of Grammond’s victims to about three dozen.
Roggendorf’s client is identified in the suit under the pseudonym Martin Voe. Roggendorf said that as early as the mid-1950s, the archdiocese had received a credible report about Grammond molesting a child.
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