San Jose’s Bellarmine hit with two lawsuits alleging long-ago abuse by disgraced Jesuit
Two men who attended Bellarmine College Preparatory High School in the 1960s and 1970s have filed separate lawsuits against the school and Roman Catholic authorities alleging they were sexually assaulted as students by a Jesuit school official who insisted on giving them unwarranted hernia checks.
The lawsuits were filed late last year by California men now in their 60s identified only as John Roe and John Roe 1. The suits claim they were sexually abused by William C. Farrington, a Jesuit brother whom Bellarmine more than a decade ago acknowledged