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Feb 05, 2008: Records Indicate Prosser Declined to Prosecute Priest in 1979

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

Jan 08, 2008: Local man suing Green Bay Diocese

1/8/2008
Local man suing Green Bay Diocese
Lisa Curtis Ozaukee News Graphic
CEDARBURG – A Cedarburg man who is suing the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay for covering up an abusive priest’s past misdeeds said he isn’t challenging the church, but rather those in charge of it.
“The church is the people. It’s the leadership we’re challenging,” said Todd Merryfield, who is suing the diocese with his brother, Troy, after they were abused as children by one of its priests.
“They could have stopped this at any point and none of us would be going through this.”
The Merryfields’ suit claims the d