Abominations

Lawsuit Claims Abuse By Priest Leonard Mackiewicz

SALISBURY -- An Arizona man has filed a lawsuit against the Diocese of Wilmington, claiming he was molested by a priest assigned to a city church nearly 40 years ago. David Dixon, of Peoria, Ariz., filed the suit Friday in Sussex County Superior Court charging that he was molested in 1970 by Leonard Mackiewicz, a former priest at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. The lawsuit also claims that Mackiewicz, who died in 1994, was a serial abuser of both boys and girls during his 30 years as a priest in churches throughout the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland and most of Delaware. "By placing a known child molester in a parish full of young innocents, the diocese quietly sealed the fate of so many vulnerable school children and destroyed the lives of numerous families," said Thomas Neuberger, one of the lawyers representing Dixon. Calls and e-mails made to the Wilmington Diocese on Friday were not returned.
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Posted by Editor at August 25, 2008 08:30 AM