BOSTON -- Seventeen new lawsuits were filed in Boston Thursday by people who claim they were sexually abused by defrocked priest John Geoghan.

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NewsCenter 5's Amalia Barreda said that the men were between 8 and 15 when the alleged assaults happened.

The attorney who just got a $10 million settlement for 86 victims of defrocked priest John Geoghan filed the new lawsuits. Mitchell Garabedian said that some of the new alleged victims come from two parishes -- St. Bernard's in Concord, Mass., and St. Joseph's in Hyde Park.

"Allegedly, during the St. Joseph's period, Father Geoghan was out on sick leave for nine months. But while he was out on sick leave, he wasn't really on sick leave. They were assigning him to churches and, we believe the evidence is going to show, that he was also receiving treatment for pedophilia," Garabedian said.

Cardinal Bernard Law, Bishop William Murphy and Bishop Thomas Daily are named as defendants in some of the cases -- supervisors who shuffled Geoghan around even though they allegedly knew he was molesting kids.

"Once again in many of these cases, there was an absentee father. For instance, there is one complaint where the child was raped and the father was in Vietnam. So Father John J. Geoghan told his mother that he'd help the family out," Garabedian said.

Douglas Fage, 45, now living in Maine, claims he was one of Geoghan's victims. Fage said that he was 10 when Geoghan fondled him and engaged him in sexual conversation.

"There were a lot of questions that I didn't think were appropriate. I don't think they're appropriate now, especially with a son. (There were) a lot of sexual questions, a lot of touching questions," Fage said.

"Once again, where were the supervisors? We're talking about 32 years. Somebody must have know something along the line," Garabedian said.