PRIEST CLEARED IN PERV CASE

The Rev. Mark Jaufmann, a 49 year old priest who says he was sexually abused as a boy by the Rev. Jeremiah Nunan, has filed a $2 million lawsuit against the Independent Mediation Assistance Program,  a program set up by the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese in 2004 to investigate such claims.  The suit says IMAP made Jaufmann feel as if what happened to him had been his fault.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany said that investigators found no reasonable grounds to believe the allegation ... against Rev. Nunan.  He has been cleared of the accusations against him.  Nunan took a leave of absence but has resumed his priestly ministry in Cairo and East Durham.

(Albany, New York)