KANSAS CITY (AP) - Two more lawsuits have been filed accusing Catholic clergy of sexually abusing two boys more than three decades ago.
The lawsuits, filed Friday against the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, allege the two priests worked at St. Elizabeth Parish in Kansas City during the 1970s.
One of the lawsuits makes claims against Monsignor Thomas O’Brien, who has been named in at least a dozen other similar cases, The Kansas City Star reported. It was filed by the mother of a man who died in 1999 in a car accident.
The second case accuses Earl Johnson, a member of the Capuchin order, of sexually abusing another man 30 years ago.
The suits are the latest of about 20 local cases filed by 43 plaintiffs in recent years, alleging that clergy abused children.
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