CONCORD (CA)
KRON TV
Oct. 23, 2019
By Philippe Djegal
On the sidewalk outside De La Salle High School in Concord, former student Jay Hoey announcing the lawsuit he’s filed against his old school, it’s founders and religious order, the Christian brothers and his former teacher, known as Brother Joseph Gutierrez.
Hoey claims Gutierrez drugged and sexually abused him multiple times from 1968 to 1972.
“I’ve suffered from anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, you know, have been diagnosed with bipolar, PTSD. Pretty much everything you can think of,” Hoey said.
Hoey says he didn’t come to grips with the extent of the abuse until 2015, when he had a brain tumor surgically removed.
Gutierrez is on the official diocese of Oakland’s credibly accused clerics list.
He was also accused in a separate civil lawsuit in 2003, of abusing another De La Salle High School student.
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