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Justice withheld Feeney charges as Outagamie DA

The parents of a teenage girl who was sexually abused by her high school track and volleyball coach have sued the teacher and the school district, claiming school officials were negligent.

2/5/2008 Records indicate Prosser declined to prosecute priest in 1979 Associated Press MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser told a mother in 1979 when he was Outagamie County district attorney that he did not want to prosecute a priest accused of abusing her sons because "it would be too hard on the boys," newly released documents indicate. The Green Bay priest, John Patrick Feeney, who is now 81, was eventually convicted in 2004 on three counts of sexual assault of a minor and one count of attempted sexual assault of a minor. Prosser is scheduled to hear a case bro

As DA in '79, he decided not to prosecute, records indicate

A Roman Catholic nun was sentenced Friday to a year in jail and 10 years' probation for sexually abusing two teenage boys at an elementary school in the 1960s.