div class=entrydiv class=articlepA lawyer for four men who claim they were molested by a priest at their Northern California parish says he has temporarily withdrawn his clients' lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa. /pp
Attorney Joseph George said Wednesday that he is working with a Minnesota lawyer with an international clergy abuse practice to expand the scope of the suits involving former priest Patrick Joseph McCabe. /ppMcCabe is awaiting extradition to his native Ireland to face charges that he sexually abused young boys there in the 1970s and early '80s. /ppGeorge says the Minnesota lawyer, Jeff Anderson, is traveling to Ireland this weekend to try to gather information showing that church officials in Dublin knew McCabe was a pedophile when they allowed him to transfer to St. Bernard's Parish in Eureka. /ppMcCabe served in the parish from 1983 to 1985. He has denied abusing any children.
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