The lawsuit was filed in May 2003 by Eugene Saulibio against the Rev. Joseph Bukoski III, Catholic social worker Sister Claudia Wong and The Fathers of The Sacred Hearts. The suit alleges that Bukoski sexually assaulted Saulibio in 1976 when the then-15-year-old was a student at Saint Louis School and Bukoski was a priest at The Fathers of the Sacred Hearts in Kane'ohe.

Jury selection was set to begin yesterday morning in Circuit Judge Bert Ayabe's courtroom. But prospective jurors were sent home and the lawyers for the parties spent most of the day negotiating in Ayabe's chambers.

Saulibio is represented by Mark Bernstein and Margery Bronster. Bukoski's lawyer is Seth Reiss. Paul Schraff is the lawyer for The Fathers of the Sacred Hearts.

In his lawsuit, Saulibio alleged that Bukoski gave him alcohol and drugs and then sexally assaulted him. Saulibio accused The Fathers of The Sacred Hearts and Wong of conspiring to protect the Catholic church and Bukoski by disregarding knowledge of the priest's sexually inappropriate behavior and continuing to employ him.

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