A civil lawsuit accusing Manchester Bishop Peter A. Libasci of sexual abuse while he was a priest in New York in the 1980s has been dismissed.

The former altar boy who was suing Libasci died at the age of 53 in 2024.

The alleged victim filed a lawsuit in the Suffolk County (New York) Supreme Court in 2021 . The man claimed Libasci, now the head of the Catholic Diocese of Manchester, had fondled and groped him on numerous occasions in 1983 and 1984 at Saints Cyril and Methodius Church and school in Deer Park, New York, where Libasci was a priest in his early 30s.

Libasci, who has denied the allegations, was not facing criminal charges. The status of the case was uncertain after his accuser’s death, according to Christian Curran, who was representing him.

On Friday, Libasci’s attorneys

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