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A lawsuit filed in Tarrant County alleging long-term and horrendous, sexual abuse of a 7th grader at Notre Dame Middle School in Wichita Falls is seeking an award of more than $1 million from the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese and Bishop.
The suit was filed Tuesday on behalf of the anonymous alleged victim, named as John Doe, 117.
It alleges the sexual assaults began in 1989 and continued into the boy’s 9th grade.
Doe’s attorney says the assailant, 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, the suit alleges he told the boy the assaults were punishment because the boy copied an assignment from an encyclopedia.
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