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	Man Awarded $3.6m in Priest Sex Abuse Case NECN December 17, 2008 http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2008/12/17/Man-awarded-36M-in-priest/1229546115.html BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A jury is awarding a former altar boy nearly $3.6 million because the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington didn't protect him from an abusive priest in the 1970s. The jury returned the verdict against the diocese on Wednesday after a weeklong trial in the lawsuit filed by the now 43-year-old Maryland man. The plaintiff says he was groped on two separate occasions by former Vermont priest Edward Paquette when the victim was a boy. Paquette was not on trial. Earlier this year a separate jury awarded a different plaintiff $8.7 million. A second trial ended in a hung jury. Wednesday's award included $192,500 in compensation and $3.4 million in punitive damages.
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