MISSOURI
KCTV
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By Betsy Webster, News Reporter
KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) –
A Missouri Court of Appeals is questioning a legal rule that has essentially treated religious schools differently from public schools when it comes to child sex crimes.
The case in question involves a man who recently reported a crime he says happened 40 years ago at the hands of his priest and teacher at St. Elizabeth’s in Waldo.
David Tate filed the lawsuit against Father Michael Tierney and the Diocese of Kansas City and Saint Joseph in 2011. He said he had repressed memories of his abuse until he heard of other victims filing suit.
It was the early 1970s. Tate was an eighth-grader at St. Elizabeth’s School. Tierney was his teacher and the priest who supervised altar boys at the church. Tate was an altar boy at the time.
Tate’s lawyer says Tierney’s supervising priest was aware that he was a risk around children.
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