SEATTLE (WA)
The Seattle Times
By Janet I. Tu
Seattle Times staff reporter
A Seattle man who said he was molested decades ago by a priest in the Seattle Roman Catholic Archdiocese committed suicide earlier this week, his family said, in the parking lot of Holy Family Church in Kirkland, where the alleged abuse occurred.
Jeff Alfieri, 43, was found by Kirkland police officers in his vehicle early Tuesday with a gunshot wound to his head.
In June, Alfieri contacted the Seattle Archdiocese, saying that the Rev. Gerald Moffat had molested him in the early 1970s when Moffat was a priest assigned to Holy Family, said archdiocese spokeswoman Jackie O’Ryan.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of Alfieri in November accuses Moffat of sexually molesting him during trips and church-related occasions when the boy was about 11 to 13 years old.
