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	Davenport Diocese Trial Continues By Kegan Feeny WHBF September 14, 2006 http://www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=5399739&nav=menu81_6_1 Davenport - The prosecution continued to call witnesses Wednesday in the sexual abuse case against the Davenport Diocese. Michael Uhde is suing the Diocese, saying he was molested by a pastor there almost 50 years ago. This is the first time a jury has heard testimony in a sex abuse suit against the Diocese. Past cases have been settled out of court. But on Tuesday, jurors heard 56-year-old Michael Uhde's claims that the late Monsenieur Thomas Feeny sexually assaulted him for six or seven years, starting when he was seven years old. Feeny died in 1981. The $2.3 million suit claims the Diocese covered up the abuse. Father David Hitch is a friend of Uhde. "It's sad that it's come to this because there will be no winners in this trial," he said. "Everybody loses, but hopefully Mike will have his say." The Diocese says it had to go to court this time because it simply has no more money to settle out of court. The church will just have to cope with any award the jury might make.
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