MISSOURI
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Lilly Fowler
CREVE COEUR • A St. Louis County Circuit Court judge ruled Wednesday that a sexual abuse case against a former Marianist cleric at the Chaminade College Preparatory School can proceed to trial.
“The Marianists and Chaminade attempted to have the case rejected on summary judgment for statute of limitations issues but failed,” plaintiff attorney Ken Chackes said in a press release.
The prep school is sponsored by the Marianist Province of the United States, a Roman Catholic religious order.
In addition to Chaminade and the Marianist Province, the lawsuit, filed in 2012, names Marianist leader, the Rev. Martin Solma.
Brother Louis Meinhardt, the former teacher and coach accused of abuse, is not named in the suit because he is deceased. The plaintiff is only known as “John Doe.”
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