Leeland E Eisenberg, formerly known as Ralph Woodward, had sued the Archdiocese of Boston and Cardinal Bernard Law in 2002 for negligence and infliction of emotional distress.
He alleged that at a young and vulnerable point in his life he was molested by Rev Richard Buntel, ABC television network reported.

Eisenberg, ABC said, claimed in his lawsuit that in or around 1982 or 1983, when he was about 21 years old, he was “homeless and living in abandoned cars in a local junk yard” in Ayer, Massachusetts, at least in part as a result of the death of his mother and a traumatic childhood at the hands of his “violent, alcoholic father.”

Eisenberg went to St Catherine’s Parish in Westford, where he asked for help. The Rev Daniel Cronin, who was the senior priest, hired Eisenberg to paint the church in exchange for room and board.

Eisenberg was given a cot in boiler room.

But the report said on Cronin’s days off, Buntel, also a priest at St Catherine’s, would allegedly take Eisenberg out for lunch and drinks. Back at the rectory, Cronin allegedly continued to offer Eisenberg “numerous drinks.”

After that, Buntel — who was later forced to resign as a priest — “would bring out a box of pornographic material, sit beside the plaintiff” — Eisenberg — “on a couch, pull out pornographic pictures and magazines and insist the plaintiff look at pornographic materials,” the suit alleged. “Father Buntel would then sexually molest the plaintiff.”
Eisenberg claimed the incidents made him feel suicidal. But ABC said it was unclear how the suit was settled.