Woman claims Omaha priest forced her to give up baby for adoption.
Kathleen Chafin was a college student in 1968 when she and her boyfriend found out she was pregnant.
They planned to get married and after the child's birth move to the college's housing for married couples, Chasin claims in a federal lawsuit. But her local priest in her hometown of Omaha intervened forced her to give her newborn up for adoption, the suit alleges. The priest, the Rev. Thomas A. Halley, came to Chafin's home over spring break and berated her, telling her:"Chafin had brought shame to her family; Chafin giving birth out of wedlock was equal to murder; Chafin had damned her soul; and Chafin was doomed to spend eternity in hell," according to the lawsuit.
Now a property manager in Seattle, Chafin says she"was forced, under duress, by Father Halley" to live in a home for unmarried pregnant women. And when the child was born, he was taken away, she says.Chafin told NBC affiliate WOWTChafin's $10 million federal claim, filed last week in Omaha, says Halley is now dead but that he was a representative of both the Archdiocese of Omaha and the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus, which are both named as defendants in the suit.
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