April 23, 2003

LOUISVILLE (KY)
CNEWS (Canoe News, Canada)
By DYLAN T. LOVAN
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A Catholic priest accused of arranging an abortion for a teenage girl he got pregnant in the 1960s is now married and living in Canada, said a lawyer who filed the lawsuit.


The alleged sexual abuse began when the girl was about 13 years old, and it occurred in motels, in cars and even in the children’s home where the girl stayed and where Rev. James Aloysius Brown was assigned, according to the lawsuit. The suit, an amended version of an earlier lawsuit, was filed Tuesday against the Diocese of Covington in Boone County Circuit Court. It claims that 21 priests in the diocese abused dozens of children.

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