8 men allege abuse in suit against SU, Jesuit order | Seattle Times Newspaper

8 men allege abuse in suit against SU, Jesuit order, Seattle Times, July 12, 2007; Seattle U sued in abuse allegations, Seattle P-I, July 12, 2007.

The men allege abuse by a Jesuit priest (Rev. Michael Toulouse) between the early 1950s and 1976, when he died. They seek to hold SU and the Society of Jesus, Oregon Province, responsible, because the institutions may have known about Toulouse's abuse of boys and did nothing to stop it.

The plaintiffs were not SU students at the time of the abuse, but they say that "Toulouse exploited his status as a priest and an SU faculty member to get to know local Catholic families and groom some of their sons." Times story.