A man who attended Regina High School in the 1960s has accused the school's former principal of sexual abuse, according to a lawsuit filed late Tuesday in Scott County District Court.
The 55-year-old man, who now lives in Florida, is seeking unspecified damages from Regina, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport and Bishop Lawrence Soens, who served as Regina's principal from 1958 to 1967. Soens became bishop of the Sioux City Diocese in 1983. He retired in 1998 and currently lives in an independent living apartment in Sioux City.
The man, who was younger than 18 at the time, alleges that beginning in 1963, Soens would sometimes call him to his office under "a false pretext of investigation and discipline to engage in sexual contact...
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Read the complete article Ex-principal named in sex abuse suit from the Iowa City Press-Citizen.
The Sioux City Journal has a more in-depth story here
I was confirmed by Bishop Soens in the mid-90s. Given his tenure starting in 1983, his name was ever-present in Mass for as long as I can remember: "with John Paul our Pope, Lawrence our bishop and all the clergy who have done your will throughout the ages".
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