NewsDecember 21, 2007
Two men sue ex-priest, KC diocese
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A former Roman Catholic priest already named in 14 lawsuits is being sued by two men who claim he molested them when they were altar boys in Kansas City. The 52-year-old Kansan and 46-year-old Missouri man filed the lawsuit Thursday against the Rev. Thomas Reardon and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Both plaintiffs are listed in the lawsuit as John Doe...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A former Roman Catholic priest already named in 14 lawsuits is being sued by two men who claim he molested them when they were altar boys in Kansas City.
The 52-year-old Kansan and 46-year-old Missouri man filed the lawsuit Thursday against the Rev. Thomas Reardon and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Both plaintiffs are listed in the lawsuit as John Doe.
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The Kansas man contends that Reardon sexually abused him in 1968 in the St. Elizabeth rectory after his mother asked the priest to explain "the facts of life" to the boy, then 12.
The Missouri man and his wife say Reardon, now 65, abused him at St. Gabriel
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