DALLAS (TX)
Dallas Morning News
March 19, 2019
By David Tarrant
Three months after members of the Dallas Jesuit community were named on a list of clergy “credibly accused” of sexual abuse of a minor, a lawsuit has been filed by a former student at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas.
The suit claims Donald Dickerson, a former Jesuit priest, sexually assaulted the student in the late 1970s. Dickerson was one of 11 men who previously worked at Dallas Jesuit included on a list released by the Jesuits in December of clergy members “credibly accused” of sexual abuse of a minor.
Dickerson was removed from the Jesuit order in 1986 and died in 2018.
The plaintiff in the case — listed in the suit only as John Doe — is seeking damages in excess of $1 million, said his attorney, Hal Browne, who filed the suit Monday in Dallas County District Court.
Dallas Jesuit Prep and the Catholic Society of Religious and Literary Education, within the Jesuits U.S. Central and Southern Province, are named as defendants in the suit. The school is located within the Central and Southern Province of the Jesuits.
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