WHEELING (WV)
Daily Journal
October 1, 2019
The former bishop of West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese is facing another lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment.
The complaint against Michael J. Bransfield, who resigned last year, was filed in mid-September in Ohio County Circuit Court, The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register reported . Attorney Robert Warner filed the lawsuit on behalf of a recent seminarian in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.
A lawsuit accusing Bransfield of molesting boys and men was confidentially settled in August. That lawsuit came on the heels of a new wave of sex abuse allegations in the U.S last year.
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