Glousterâs Holy Cross Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville were dismissed as defendants in a $1 million civil lawsuit filed by a Glouster woman following the reported sexual abuse that she experienced as a minor by a since-dismissed priest.
Steubenville Bishop Jeffrey Monforton is now the sole defendant of the suit, which alleges that he ânegligently failed to investigate and protect⦠to interveneâ in regard to reports of acts of sexual exploitation by his employee, ex-priest Henry Christopher Foxhoven.
The dismissal of Holy Cross and the Steubenville Diocese follows a motion to dismiss the case in its entirety filed in March by the attorneys representing the religious institutions and Monforton.