Texas Diocese facing multi-million lawsuit: CEN 5.29.09 May 29, 2009
Posted by geoconger in Abuse, Church of England Newspaper, Texas.trackback
| The Diocese of Texas is a defendant in a lawsuit seeking £28 million in damages for allegedly covering up the molestation of school boys by an Episcopal priest.
In extracts of a transcript from a 2008 pre-trial hearing printed in the Houston Press, the former chaplain of St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, the Rev James Tucker is accused of having molested students at the boarding school that caters to Texas’s upper classes. After allegations of abuse were made against Mr Tucker, who served as chaplain to the boy’s school from 1958 to 1968, the Diocese of Texas transferred him to another school in the diocese, and then assigned him to St James’ Episcopal Church and School in Austin, which served the diocese’s black community. Mr Tucker retired in 1994 but was deposed by the diocese in 2008. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper. |
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The article makes it sound as if the diocese moved Tucker from school to school to school, but I believe that his time at St. James’ Church was before the founding of the parish’s school.
The diocese has done enough to completely damage their religion and beliefs for the next 500 years… one can only imagine what was going on 500 years ago with these “sick” people.
Two comments from an alumna, class of 1963: 1) It was a co-educational school from its founding, modeled on a Quaker school (The George School). 2) Mr. Tucker was initially sent to St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, then to St. James where his wife opened a school, still going strong, grades K through 8.