WVVA
October 4, 2006
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Wheeling, W.Va. (AP) -- The nation's Roman Catholic bishops, including West Virginia's Michael Bransfield, have been named in a lawsuit seeking the disclosure of names and locations of clergy accused of molesting children.
The lawsuit was filed in August by the family of a Wisconsin man believed to have been killed by a Roman Catholic priest.
A judge ruled last year there was probable cause that the Reverend Ryan Erickson shot Daniel O'Connell and James Ellison at the O'Connell family's northwestern Wisconsin funeral home.
In the suit, O'Connell's family asked for all documents from the bishops and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding molestation to be released to law enforcement.
Bryan Minor is a spokesman for the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. He says Bransfield was served with the lawsuit last week and that the matter has been referred to diocese lawyers.
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