MISSOURI
The Kansas City Star
By MARK MORRIS
The Kansas City Star
The recent death of a Catholic priest has prompted lawyers to remove him from a civil lawsuit that alleged he abused a girl in the 1960s.
Lawyers representing the plaintiff filed paperwork in Jackson County Circuit Court Monday to formally remove the Rev. Francis McGlynn from the suit filed against him and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in October.
McGlynn, 84, died earlier this month.
The notice of dismissal covered only McGlynn. The diocese remains in the suit.
The 2011 suit was the fourth filed against McGlynn since 2003, according to court records. The other three have been settled.
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