OREGON
Courthouse News Service
By JUNE SEATTLE
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) – The Archdiocese of Portland, Ore. will pay $525,000 to settle 50-year-old allegations from an alleged victim of a pedophile priest.
The pseudonymous Martin Voe claimed the Rev. Maurice Grammond sexually abused him while presiding at St. Charles Church in Portland in the late 1950s.
The archdiocese issued an apology in 2000 and settled a lawsuit with 25 men who claimed Grammond had molested them. Grammond died in 2002.
Voe sued the archdiocese in 2008, three years after a claims bar date the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon set in January 2005, regarding existing claims against the archdiocese or archbishop.
The Archdiocese of Portland was the first Roman Catholic diocese in the nation to file for bankruptcy, in 2004, overwhelmed by costs arising from sexual abuse lawsuits.
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