Two more sex abuse suits filed against ABQ orphanage – By Colleen Heild (Albuquerque Journal) / Aug 25 2020
Two more former students of the now-closed St. Anthony Home for Boys came forward Monday to file childhood sexual abuse lawsuits against nuns who ran the orphanage after a top superior at the religious order recently stated she didn’t believe children had been molested there, their attorneys say.
The two men “are not motivated by compensation, as the sexual abuse happened many decades ago, but primarily want the truth to be known, and are asking the Court to put into public archives all documents that point to the need for accountability and transparency,” said their attorneys Brad D. Hall and Levi Monagle in a statement on Monday.
The allegations in both lawsuits focus primarily on the conduct of a specific nun at the now-closed orphanage in Albuquerque, which was operated by the Sisters of St. Francis, based in Colorado Springs.
The new cases come just weeks after the filing of a similar lawsuit, which alleged sexual abuse in the late 1950s and early 1960s by nuns, a chaplain and traveling priests at the home.
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