Koenig v. Lambert

DOBBERPUHL, Circuit Judge.

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The following facts were admitted by defendant for the purposes of this motion. From 1958 to 1975, Robert Koenig (Koenig) was sexually abused by Father William Lam*904bert (Lambert), a Catholic priest who was located in Fairfax, South Dakota at the time. Under the pretenses of observing Koenig in the act of his confessed sin of masturbation, Lambert first abused Koenig by fondling him. Koenig was twelve or thirteen years old at the time of this first incident. Over the next seventeen years, Lambert repeatedly abused Koenig, including forcibly raping…