MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 10/02/2014
A never-before-accused priest was sued Thursday by a man who claims the cleric sexually abused him while he was an altar boy at Sacred Heart parish in Robbinsdale.
The Rev. Ramon Jerome Buckley fondled the boy and forced him to have oral sex at the parish office, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Ramsey County District Court.
The abuse took place from about 1978 to 1979 when the boy was 12 to 14, according to the suit. In the same general time period, from 1978 to 1980, the same boy was the victim of abuse by a second priest at Sacred Heart, the Rev. John McGrath, the lawsuit claimed.
Following his time in Robbinsdale, Buckley worked as an associate priest at the Church of St. Mark in St. Paul from 1979 to 1982, according to the archdiocese. Buckley also served at Holy Cross in Minneapolis and St. Luke in Clearwater, Minn., the archdiocese said. He died in 1999.
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