Judge Says Settlement Money for Victim of Priest Sex Abuse Drained by Victim's Relatives

Daily Reporter
July 31, 2014

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/757fbc353fc24dbc9d86c04b69df78f4/DE--Sex-Abuse-Settlement-Drained

A Delaware judge says much of the settlement money for a man who was sexually abused by a Catholic priest has been spent by family members on cars, jewelry and other property.

The man was one of more than 150 abuse victims who reached settlement with the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington in 2011.

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But Vice Chancellor Donald Parsons disagreed. He has removed them as trustees, and ruled the victim was entitled to recover $158,400 that the two spent on cars and house renovations.