BATON ROUGE (LA)
The Advocate
February 22, 2018
By Joe Gyan, Jr.
The Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge and one of its priests have been dismissed from a lawsuit that claimed a teenager confessed to him in 2008 that a church parishioner was sexually abusing her, but the priest did not stop or report the alleged abuse.
State District Judge Mike Caldwell signed an order Feb. 9 dismissing the diocese and Father Jeff Bayhi from the longstanding suit by Rebecca Mayeux and her parents, the diocese announced Thursday in a news release.
The judge’s order came in response to a motion by Mayeux and her parents to dismiss their claims against Bayhi and the diocese, with each party bearing their own costs.
“The decision preserves the Seal and sanctity of the Confessional which the Church considers inviolable,” the diocese’s statement said.
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