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Savannah Morning News
By Jan Skutch
Former Roman Catholic priest Wayland Yoder Brown and two Savannah diocese bishops on Thursday were sued for alleged sexual encounters with a minor parishioner.
The suit, filed in the Court of Common Pleas in Jasper County, S.C. by attorney Mark Tate, alleges Brown took the plaintiff to Jasper County and had “multiple sexual encounters” with him between August 1987 and May 1988.
The plaintiff was a 13-year-old student at St. James Catholic School in Savannah at the time. He filed the suit in his own name, but the Savannah Morning News does not identify victims of sexual assaults.
The suit named Brown, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah, former Bishop Raymond Lessard and current Bishop Gregory John Hartmayer as defendants.
It is the third lawsuit naming Brown involving similar conduct.
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