CONNECTICUT
CT Post
Michael P. Mayko
HARTFORD — A failed first attempt at settling nearly two dozen cases seeking hundreds of millions for 23 Haitian street boys who claim they were abused by Douglas Perlitz while enrolled in his school led a federal judge to schedule a conference Friday on how to proceed.
U.S. District Judge Robert Chatigny ordered lawyers representing the plaintiffs and the 21 defendants to appear before him Friday to schedule pre-trial motions and hearings as well as discuss any pending concerns.
His decision came after receiving a report that a full-day mediation session involving all the parties on July 9 “was not successful.”
On Tuesday, Mitchell Garabedian, a Boston lawyer who specializes in sexual abuse cases against the clergy and Steven Errante of New Haven filed a 22nd federal suit seeking $20 million in damages each from Perlitz; the Rev. Paul Carrier, Perlitz’s Fairfield University mentor who helped him create the Project Pierre Toussaint program in Cap-Haitien; Fairfield University; the Haiti Fund, Project Pierre Toussaint’s fund raising arm; the Order of Malta, a worldwide Catholic Charity; Hope Carter, a New Canaan philanthropist and 15 others.
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