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Archdiocese of New Orleans Pushed Confidential Settlements with Victims of Monstrous Deacon George Brignac

By David Hammer and Ramon Antonio Vargas
New Orleans Advocate
December 18, 2020

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/investigations/david-hammer/losing-faith-part-3/289-71a8f9ef-5256-4182-86a5-35e8a5e43477

Lawyers representing the church or its insurers took a hard line, arguing that plaintiffs had waited too long, and that they would be lucky to get anything.

The email to the Archdiocese of New Orleans came in on a Friday in November 2018.

A week earlier, New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond had published a list of clergymen credibly accused of child molestation -- a first-ever effort by the leadership in this traditionally Catholic city to fully come clean about the depth of a scandal that blew up in 2002 and had begun to simmer again in the summer of 2018.

The scandal’s recent flareup owed mostly to the first name on the list, which was organized alphabetically: George Brignac. That name jumped out at one man, and it prompted him to write the email.

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