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WICHITA FALLS, TX — A lawsuit filed in Tarrant County alleging long-term sexual abuse of a 7th grader at Notre Dame Middle School in Wichita Falls seeks an award of more than $1 million from the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese.
The suit was filed Tuesday on behalf of the anonymous listed in the lawsuit as John Doe 117. It alleged the sexual assaults by a priest began in 1989 and continued into the boy’s 9th grade.
Doe’s attorney said Father John Hugh Sutton, was the school chaplain and the boy’s history teacher and confessor.
Sutton died in 2004 after serving in several other states under various aliases according to the suit. It said he told the boy the assaults were punishment because the boy copied an assignment from an encyclopedia.
The boy was told he had to do penance in the small chapel inside the school.
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