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Two East Texans join suit alleging abuse from Catholic priest in 1970s

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BEAUMONT/JEFFERSON COUNTY (KYTX) - A Nacogdoches County man and a Cherokee County man have joined a personal injury lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont. Their charge: that they were sexually abused by a priest in the 1970s.

The two men are identified only as John Doe 105 and John Doe 106, according to a federal lawsuit. They are among three men who claim the late Ronald Bollich sexually assaulted them when Bollich was assigned to the Sacred Heart Parish in Nacogdoches in the mid-to-late 1970s.

Bollich died in 1996, but Sacred Heart Parish was governed by the Roman Catholic Diocese in Beaumont at the time of the alleged assaults, when the men were teenagers.

Lawyers for the diocese have asked a federal judge to review the claims, noting that the plaintiffs are bringing the issue to light 35 years after the last date of alleged abuse.

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