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Judge Upholds Key Elements In Maciel Sex Abuse Case
September 08, 2011
By EDMUND H. MAHONY
The Hartford Courant
The suit is being pressed by Jose Raul Gonzalez Lara, a Mexican who claims that he is the illegitimate son of his abuser, the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado.
In one of the odder twists in the still-emerging story of Maciel, Gonzalez claims that he was one of two children Maciel fathered with a woman in Mexico. Gonzalez said that Maciel was known to his family in Mexico as Raul Rivas and claimed to be a CIA agent and oil executive.
Gonzalez has said he did not learn that his father was a priest until 1997, when he was about 17. He said his abuse by Maciel began when he was 7 and continued for nine years. The victim was 30 when he filed the suit in June 2010. Maciel died in 2008.
In the legal decision last week, Superior Court Judge Grant Miller rejected arguments by the Legionaries and its affiliated organizations to dismiss the suit in its entirety.
Miller dismissed counts in the suit that claimed that the Legionaries knew or should have known of Maciel's abuse. But the judge let stand counts in which Gonzalez claims that negligence by the order contributed to his abuse by Maciel.
New Haven lawyer Joel Faxon, who represents Gonzalez, said that he will issue subpoenas for senior Vatican officials in an effort to support the negligence case.
The suit claims that Maciel's sexual abuse of children was widely known in the church for decades, beginning in the 1940s and '50s, but was not stopped.
In 1976 alone, according to the suit, the Legionaries' national director accused Maciel by letter of abusing 20 seminarians, and a U.S. bishop reported Maciel to the Vatican and Pope Paul VI, but no action was taken. Another complaint was made to the Vatican two years later, according to the suit, but there was no response.
Craig Raabe, the lawyer representing the Legionaries, had no immediate response Wednesday to the decision in court. Previously, the Legionaries have declined to discuss the suit.
The Legionaries operate the Legion of Christ College in Cheshireand the Legion of Christ in Hamden.
Read more: http://www.courant.com/community/hamden/hc-priest-abuse-0908-20110907,0,5330183.story
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Suit against Legion of Christ to proceed in Conn.
CONNECTICUT
San Francisco Chronicle
By MICHAEL MELIA, Associated Press
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/09/07/national/a155644D62.DTL#ixzz1XUhOdlhA
.(09-07) 16:04 PDT Hartford, Conn. (AP) --
A lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was molested for years by the founder of a once-powerful religious order will go forward in Connecticut, where a judge refused in a ruling released Wednesday to dismiss negligence claims against the Legionaries of Christ.
The lawsuit by Jose Raul Gonzalez of Mexico claims the clergyman, the late Rev. Marcial Maciel, was also his father. He argues that the Legion failed to protect him from a man who was a known pedophile and accuses its officials of covering up decades of sexual abuse by Maciel and other priests.
Hartford Superior Court Judge Grant Miller dismissed some parts of the lawsuit but allowed others alleging negligent supervision to proceed. In the Aug. 30 ruling, Miller said the allegations raised by Gonzalez were enough to suggest the Legion could have foreseen the harm he suffered.
An attorney for the plaintiff, Joel Faxon of New Haven, said the ruling is important because it will allow Gonzalez's side to press for more evidence.
"It allows the floodgates to open up in terms of access to documents of the Legionaries of Christ and our ability to use international treaties to subpoena people within the Vatican, including very high-ranking officials," Faxon said.
A U.S. spokesman for the Legion, Jim Fair, said the organization was also pleased with the ruling. Fair said he did not want to comment further, however, while the case is still pending. He said the order used to have its U.S. headquarters in Connecticut but the main American offices are now in New York and Atlanta.
Maciel, who died in 2008 at age 87, enjoyed favor at the Vatican under Pope John Paul II, who admired the order's conservative outlook and its success in fundraising and recruiting seminarians at a time when the ranks of priests were dwindling.
But a Vatican investigation of the Legion concluded last year that Maciel had committed grave and "objectively immoral actions" that constituted true crimes in some cases and showed a "life devoid of scruples and authentic religious meaning."
Maciel created a "system of power" built on silence, deceit and obedience that enabled him to lead a double life that allowed the abuse to go unchecked and unquestioned, the Vatican said.
In the lawsuit filed in June 2010, Gonzalez said the Legion knew or should have known about allegations dating to the 1940s that Maciel abused children and seminarians. The defendants asked the judge to throw out much of the lawsuit, saying there was no evidence the alleged abuse of the plaintiff was within the scope of Maciel's authority.
Gonzalez's mother, Blanca Lara Gutierrez, has said Maciel led a double life, had two children with her, adopted another, then sexually abused two of the three.
Lara Gutierrez said she was 19 when she met the priest, then 56, who passed himself off as "Jose Rivas," an employee of an international oil company, a private investigator and a CIA agent. She said she didn't discover his real identity until 1997, through a magazine article.
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