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AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man is suing the Diocese of Austin claiming that a priest abused him as a child more than 40 years ago.
The man, identified as John Doe in court documents states that Reverend Milton Eggerling of the Saint Louis Catholic Church molested him, provided him with alcohol, and took him on out of state trips over five years in the 1970’s. The lawsuit also states that Father Hames O’Connor, who worked at Saint Louis, also abused John Doe.
John Doe claims in the lawsuit that the Diocese concealed Eggerling’s psycho-sexual disorders and did not report his sexual misconduct.
Eggerling died in 2008 at the age of 87.
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