CONNECTICUT
The Hour
WATERBURY (AP) — A jury determined Friday that the Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford should pay $1 million in damages to a former altar boy who was sexually abused by a priest decades ago, ruling that the church was reckless and negligent in allowing a known pedophile to have access to children.
The decision, reported by the Hartford Courant followed about three and half hours of deliberations by the Superior Court jury in Waterbury.
The victim, identified in his lawsuit as Jacob Doe, was abused by Father Ivan Ferguson in the early 1980s.
During the weeklong trial, he presented evidence that church officials had allowed Ferguson to have contact with children despite admitting earlier that he had sexually abused other boys.
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