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New York Daily News
BY MICHAEL O’KEEFFE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, April 18, 2016
A former New Yorker who says she was sexually abused by a priest reinstated by the Vatican earlier this year – even though he had pleaded guilty to criminal charges – is expected to file a federal lawsuit against the cleric’s diocese in India.
Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson will file suit on behalf of Megan Peterson in federal court that claims the Diocese of Ootacamund endangered children by reinstating the Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul to ministry.
Anderson and Peterson will speak about the lawsuit at a news conference in St. Paul Tuesday, according to a press advisory released by Anderson’s law firm.
Peterson, a member of the advocacy group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), said she could not comment on the lawsuit until after it is filed, but she told the Daily News in February that she believed the decision to reinstate Jeyapaul gave the pedophile priest a green light to molest children in his native India.
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