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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Settlement reached in sex abuse case against Archdiocese of St. Louis, defrocked priest
By Lilly Fowler lfowler@post-dispatch.com 314-340-82210
A settlement has been reached in a civil lawsuit against the Archdiocese of St. Louis and a defrocked St. Louis priest.
The trial was to have begun this morning against the archdiocese and former priest Joseph D. Ross. A young woman who attended St. Cronan Catholic Church between 1997 and 2001 claimed Ross abused her when she was 5 or 6 years old.
The Ross case was poised to become only the second child sexual abuse case against the St. Louis archdiocese to make it to trial, and it would be the first since the priest abuse scandal erupted nationwide in 2002.
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