PLAYER'S DEATH Lawsuit against church is over $75M

Parents of the Pittsburgh player are critical that the priest responsible wasn't disciplined or removed.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The parents of a University of Pittsburgh football player who died after he fell through a church ceiling have filed a lawsuit seeking at least $75 million from church officials and a priest accused of giving the teen alcohol in the hours before his death.
Billy Gaines, 19, died in June while attending a cookout hosted by the Rev. Henry Krawczyk at the St. Anne Catholic Church in Homestead in western Pennsylvania.
Authorities have charged Krawczyk with involuntary manslaughter in the player's death.
The night
The suit alleges that Krawczyk served alcohol for several hours to a group of teens on the night of the accident, then did nothing as the group got rowdy, watched pornography on television and used the chapel's sound system to rap and sing.
Gaines crashed through a ceiling while trying to get to the roof through a crawl space that Krawczyk had shown him, the suit said.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Philadelphia, also names St. Anne's, the Diocese of Pittsburgh, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish over which Krawczyk presided, and the Our Lady of Joy parish in Plum, where he worked in the 1980s.
It seeks damages for Gaines' pain and suffering, compensation for what he may have earned over his lifetime and $75 million in punitive damages.
Gaines' parents also alleged that Krawczyk had been accused several times of giving alcohol to minors in the past, and of making sexual advances toward a minor boy, but had not been disciplined or removed from a position where he would have contact with young people.
Krawczyk's attorney, David Cercone, did not immediately return a phone call left at his office after business hours Monday evening by The Associated Press.
The Rev. Ronald Lengwin, the spokesman for the Diocese of Pittsburgh, declined to discuss the details of the suit, but said church officials had acted "in a responsible manner."
The diocese continues "to pray for Billy Gaines, his family and friends and all of those affected by it," Lengwin said.
Krawczyk resigned as pastor of St. Maximilian Kolbe shortly after Gaines' death. St. Anne's Church was part of that parish.
Background
The suit said Gaines and his roommate, David Abdul, moved into a convent on the grounds of the St. Anne church in May after their apartment was damaged by fire. In exchange for their rooms, the pair paid Krawczyk $50 per month in rent, the suit said.
On several occasions after they moved in, the young men drank heavily with Krawczyk, who also lived on the church grounds, the suit alleged.
Gaines was a wide receiver and kick returner for Pitt. His parents, Kimberly and William Gaines, live in Ijamsville, Md.