PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is being accused in a civil suit of transferring a priest with known sexual abuse allegations to Tennessee and covering up the alleged crimes.

The plaintiff suing the archdiocese is identified as a 22-year-old Jane Doe. She says church officials failed to disclose previous sexual abuse allegations against Reverend Kevin McGoldrick when he worked in Philadelphia.

In 2017, when the 22-year-old was at a Roman Catholic college in Nashville, Tennessee, McGoldrick invited her to his rectory for dinner.

According to the complaint, when the priest and the plaintiff were alone, McGoldrick gave her bourbon until she was so drunk that she threw up.

He is accused of telling her his life in the priesthood feels lonely and proceeding to grope and kiss her as she faded in and out of consciousness.

Stewart Ryan, the lawyer representing the plaintiff, says the woman still “seriously suffers from the trauma of that encounter that was inflicted upon her as a result of the assault but also as a result of the way she was treated by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia."

Ryan said she petitioned the Philadelphia Archdiocese for information on prior abuse allegations but was ignored.

"The Archdiocese of Philadelphia, despite finding her account credible, repeatedly refused to provide her information or acknowledge the reality that, in fact, there had been prior accusations that were investigated by the archdiocese before he was ever sent to Nashville in the first place."

The plaintiff's lawyers say there are still grounds to sue, regardless of Pennsylvania's statute of limitations, which allows victims up to two years to report their case, because the plaintiff wasn't made aware of previous allegations against the defendant until September 2022.

KYW Newsradio reached out to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. They said they will not comment on pending litigation.