'I don't want anyone to go through what I and my brothers went through... I just want the Vatican to do what's right.'
Stephen Hoffman, one of three brothers who are plaintiffs for the case, said at a press conference the suit's intention is to"let something like this never happen anymore."
"I don't want anyone to go through what I and my brothers went through... I just want the Vatican to do what's right," he said. Hoffman and his brothers Luke and Benedict say they were molested by Curtis Wehmeyer, a Catholic priest arrested in 2012 and sentenced to five years in prison after the siblings' mother reported the case, sparking a scandal that caused the resignation of an archbishop in 2015.
Another plaintiff, 51-year-old Jim Keenan, said he was assaulted throughout the 1970s by a priest whose actions were documented in secret by the church. "I come forward today to sue the Pope and the Vatican, because it needs to stop. They are not above us," he told reporters.
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