MICHIGAN
Deadline Detroit
Silence.
Judy Larson was silent for nearly 60 years. Then apparently, she couldn’t hold it in any longer.
Aftab Borka of the Oakland Press reports that Larson, 68, in January contacted the Archdiocese of Detroit alleging that Richard Lauinger, a priest in the 1950s at Our Lady of Sorrows in Farmington, had raped her when she was 10.
On March 28, the Archiocese reported that the allegations against Lauinger, now 85, were found to be credible, the paper reported. He moved out of Michigan in 1985.
“He (the priest) told me then that nobody would believe me. I believed it all my life,” Larson, recounting her days at the old church in Farmington, told the Oakland Press. “And now there are people who are saying ‘We believe you’.”
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