Florida man suing Gary Diocese over abuse claim
Post-Tribune
May 12, 2010
BY CHRISTIN NANCE LAZERUS, (219) 648-3086
A Florida man is filing suit against the Catholic Diocese of Gary and the Rev. Richard Emerson, who he claims abused him at an East Chicago church when he was a teen.
The abuse occurred in the late 1980s and 1990s, when the boy was 13, at Assumption Catholic Church, which is now shuttered.
The Diocese of Orlando also is party to the suit.
The man joins a Hobart teen and two other men as alleged victims of Emerson. Victims have alleged that Emerson fondled them sexually and watched pornographic videos with them.
Diocese of Gary officials began an internal investigation of Emerson in 2004, when civil lawsuits were first filed against him in Florida.
He was allowed to continue his pastoral duties, but when the allegations were termed "credible," he was suspended.
Emerson requested to be stripped of the priesthood in 2006 and relocated to Las Vegas and may have moved to Georgia. His final assignment was at the Notre Dame parish in Michigan City.
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