OREGON
Oregonian
By Stuart Tomlinson | stomlinson@oregonian.com
on September 04, 2014
A man who said he was sexually abused as a boy in the late 1980s by a Capuchin priest in Hermiston filed an $8.1 million lawsuit Thursday against the Capuchin Franciscan Friars, the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Baker and a Hermiston church.
According to the federal suit, the boy was abused by Father Luis Jaramillo in the fall of 1988 and the winter of 1989. Now in his mid-30s, the man identified in the suit as “John JP Doe” says Jaramillo trained him as an altar boy and then regularly molested him on parish grounds at the Our Lady of Angels parish in Hermiston.
The suit alleges that Jaramillo was transferred from Los Angeles to Hermiston in 1987 after he was accused of molesting two boys.
After the Hermiston boy told his mother about the abuse and that Jaramillo threatened to kill him if he resisted, the mother complained to church officials, the suit alleges.
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