New York attorney, Carla Latty, is suing the Baltimore Archdiocese and the St Joseph Society of the Sacred Heart for $10 million in a paternity suit claiming that her father was a now dead priest, Fr Francis E. Ryan, but the Archdiocese says that the priest had no connection with it. "What upsets me about this whole story of mine is that I never got to meet my mother," Latty told ABC2 News.
Ms Latty also believes Fr Ryan fathered at least one of her other siblings.Ms Latty says that the relationship between the priest and her much younger mother began when Anna Senna was just 19 years old. The relationship happened in Montgomery, Alabama.
"I believe she felt compelled to put her children in orphanages to protect the identity of my father, Fr Francis E. Ryan," says Latty.
Latty, 56, of New Jersey and her brother, Adrian Senna, 63, of British Columbia, say Fr Ryan, a member of Saint Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart, had a long-running relationship with their birth mother beginning in Montgomery, Ala., in the 1940s.
But rather than acknowledge his paternity and take financial responsibility for his children, the plaintiffs argue, Ryan and his superiors in the order concealed the sexual affair and instead moved Ryan to a succession of assignments in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans.
Carla Latty never met either of her parents. She just met her other siblings in 2006.
Now she has announced a 10 million dollar lawsuit against Fr Ryan's estate, the St Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart and the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
She believes the Archdiocese is responsible, because they were in charge of the St Joseph Society. But the archdiocese denies knowledge of Fr Ryan.
"[He] never served as a priest [in Maryland], was never ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore and to our knowledge never even stepped foot in the State of Maryland," says Sean Caine from the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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