21 Alleged Sex Abuse Victims Settle with N.J. Catholic School, Report Says

By Sara Jerde
NJ.com
August 22, 2016

http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2016/08/21_alleged_sex_abuse_victims_settle_with_nj_catholic_school_report_says.html

Benjamin K. Yew, 33, was arrested July 29 and accused of stealing more than $500,000 from a senior citizen he knew in an assisted living facility, authorities said. (Bergen County Prosecutor's Office)

Luis Caraballo, who had been on the run for six years after a sex-assault conviction, was arrested in the Dominican Republic and returned to Bergen County on July 22, authorities said. (Bergen County Sheriff's Office)

Bergen Catholic High School has reached a $1.9 million settlement with 21 alleged sex abuse victims, a lawyer representing group told NorthJersey.com.

The men said they were assaulted by brothers at the parochial school between 1963 and 1978.

The lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, said the victims he was representing were between 13 and 17 years old at the time of the alleged assaults. Each will receive sums that range from $65,000 to $115,000, Garabedian told NorthJersey.com.

A lawyer for the school, Thomas Herten, said in a statement last year that Bergen Catholic had done a "good faith mediation" of the accusations, but wasn't admitting guilt by doing so, according to the report.

Bergen Catholic is an all-boys school in Oradell.