CALIFORNIA
Monterey Herald
By Julia Reynolds, Monterey Herald
POSTED: 11/19/14
SALINAS >> Palma High School in Salinas is being sued over alleged sexual abuse of several former students by a priest who taught at the school in the 1980s, attorneys announced Wednesday.
The Minnesota law firm of Jeff Anderson and Associates, which has pursued clergy sexual abuses cases nationwide, announced it will hold a press conference Thursday morning to outline details of the allegations against the Rev. Gerald Funcheon and Crosier Fathers & Brothers, over abuse they say occurred at Palma and St. Odilia’s School in Minnesota.
Funcheon is a former chaplain and teacher at the school. Palma president Brother Patrick Dunne said late Wednesday he couldn’t comment because he hadn’t seen the lawsuit.
Last year, nine former Palma students joined some 400 people who are sharing a $16.5 million settlement with the Irish Christian Brothers for sexual abuse they suffered at schools affiliated with the order in the United States and Canada.
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