Rev. James Curry Had Faced A Separate Rape Allegation

[Ian David]

Black Collar Crime

Rev. James Curry Had Faced A Separate Rape Allegation
Though no criminal charges were brought, civil lawsuit details claims
By Joe Wojtas Published on 2/24/2008

Groton — The lawsuit newly filed by “Mary Doe” is not the first time the late James Curry, formerly a priest in the Norwich diocese, has been accused of raping a young girl.

In 1981 a Groton woman who had worked as Curry's housekeeper filed a criminal complaint against Curry with the town police. In it she alleged the priest had raped her 11-year-old daughter on various occasions in 1980 and 1981.

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The mother of the alleged victim, who is now 38, initially decided not to press charges because she did not want to expose her daughter to the court proceedings, her attorney said at the time. But two years later she and her daughter re-filed her complaint with police and also sued Curry and St. Mary's Church.

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The suit alleged that St. Mary Church Corp. knew or should have known that Curry “was a person afflicted with a sexually deviant personality” because he possessed a “desire and proclivity to engage in sexual acts with young female children” and the parish failed to protect young girls associated with the church.

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