CONNECTICUT
The Hartford Courant
By EDMUND H. MAHONY, emahony@courant.com
The Hartford Courant
3:06 p.m. EST, February 9, 2012
WATERBURY —
The lawyer representing a former altar boy suing the Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford for sexual abuse by a priest three decades ago told jurors Thursday that the victim probably can never be compensated for the “amputation of his spirit.”
“You can’t put a price on that,” attorney Thomas McNamara told a Superior Court jury in his closing argument. “It’s worth more than $1 million. It’s worth more than $2 million. Not even $3 million will compensate him.”
The now-adult victim, identified in his suit as Jacob Doe, has accused the church of negligence and recklessness. The victim presented evidence during a week-long trial that senior church officials put Father Ivan Ferguson in a position where he could abuse Doe in spite of Ferguson’s admission two years earlier that he had sexually abused other boys.
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