Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF)

The abuse is said to have happened when plaintiffs lived in a home dubbed the “house of horrors” at various times from the late 1990s to 2004.

A lawsuit was filed on Aug. 8 in a federal court in Boston against Massachusetts state officials, accusing them of denying a married Catholic couple a license to serve as foster parents because of the couple’s religious beliefs concerning marriage, sexuality, and gender.

The abuse is said to have happened when plaintiffs lived in a home dubbed the “house of horrors” at various times from the late 1990s to 2004.

A lawsuit was filed on Aug. 8 in a federal court in Boston against Massachusetts state officials, accusing them of denying a married Catholic couple a license to serve as foster parents because of the couple’s religious beliefs concerning marriage, sexuality, and gender.