SNAP accuses Abp. Hanus of Dubuque of coverup
The suit states that the plaintiff's parents confronted Hanus, then the abbot in charge of Conception Abbey, about the sexual contact. "Hanus told plaintiff's parents that Fr. Parry had a 'mental breakdown' and that he would be treated for this breakdown." Parry was subsequently sent to a facility in New Mexico for sex offender treatment and did not return to the abbey.
The suit continues, "In fact, Fr. Parry did not have a 'mental breakdown.' Instead, Fr. Parry was a known child predator who had sexually abused numerous students before Fr. Parry sexually abused the plaintiff."
The suit said Parry previously reported to Hanus and other clergy that between 1973 and 1979, while Parry was a monk but prior to his ordination as a priest, "that he had been involved in three inappropriate sexual relationships" and another in 1981 while attending seminary classes in Collegeville, Minn.
At the insistence of Hanus, Parry was "required to receive psychological treatment" as a condition of his completing seminary school, the suit says.
Hanus, Dubuque archbishop since 1995, issued the following statement through Msgr. Thomas Toale, Dubuque archdiocesan vicar general:
"A lawsuit has been filed in Missouri that makes several claims about me while I served as abbot of Conception Abbey," Hanus said. "I await the opportunity to respond to these claims according to the system of justice in our country."
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I just noticed you have Hamus, not Hanus for the Archbishop's name in the title.
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