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	Ontario Woman Poised to Get Large Settlement in Priest Sex Abuse Case Sault Star May 8, 2009 http://www.saultstar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1559334 (CP) — A law firm in London, Ont., says a Chatham woman is set to receive what's believed to be the largest individual settlement of a sexual abuse case in Canadian history. Lou Ann Soontiens is one of close to 50 victims of Rev. Charles Sylvestre, who died in January 2007. Soontiens suffered five years of sexual abuse as a child at St. Ursula's parish in Chatham. Details of the settlement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of London are expected to be released during a news conference Friday in London. Her civil suit against the church, which was filed three years ago, was set to go to trial on May 11. Sylvestre died three months after he was sentenced to three years in prison following a 2006 guilty plea to sexually assaulting 47 women over four decades.
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