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Church in Crisis
The Rev. Herman J. Lammers

Louisville Courier Journal
September 29, 2002

http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/2002projects/priestabuse/stories/lammers_orphanage.html

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Lammers, a Louisville native, was born in 1907, ordained in 1932 and died in 1986, according to the archdiocese. He is accused of abuse in two lawsuits from his tenure at the St. Thomas-St. Vincent Orphanage in Anchorage. Lammers lived there and was chaplain. The lawsuits refer to "St. Thomas Home-St. Vincent Home-Our Lady's Home for the Infants," as the location where the plaintiffs lived. According to the archdiocese, Our Lady's Home was a separate facility and was not in Anchorage.

PLAINTIFF: Belinda Diana Curl (declined to be interviewed)
AGE: 51
FILED SUIT: Aug. 22
DEFENDANT: Archdiocese of Louisville
DATE AND LOCATION OF ALLEGED ABUSE: About 1963, St. Thomas Home-St.Vincent Home-Our Lady's Home for the Infants
ACCUSATION: Curl's suit said Lammers "forcibly sexually molested, abused, battered and assaulted" her.



PLAINTIFF: Dorothy Marie Richardson (declined to be interviewed)
AGE: 57
FILED SUIT: July 24
DEFENDANT: Archdiocese of Louisville
DATE AND LOCATION OF ALLEGED ABUSE: About 1955, St. Thomas Home-St. Vincent Home-Our Lady's Home for the Infants
ACCUSATION: Richardson's suit said Lammers "forcibly sexually molested, abused, battered and assaulted" her.
 
 

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