Toledo Priest And Diocese Face Further Legal Problems

The murder conviction on Thursday of Toledo, Ohio Catholic priest Gerald Robinson for the murder of a nun in 1980 is not the end of legal problems for the priest or Toledo's Catholic diocese. Today's Toledo Blade reports that Robinson and the diocese are defendants in a civil suit filed by a 40-year old woman and her husband alleging that the woman was raped and tortured in ritual abuse by Robinson when she was a young girl. Also, Lucas County (Ohio) Prosecutor Julia Bates is still considering obstruction of justice charges against the Toledo Diocese for failure to turn over documents the state requested during its lengthy murder investigation of Robinson.