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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) — Details in the settlement of a sex abuse lawsuit against a Catholic priest will reveal specific information on the priest’s brief stint as a principal in Louisville said the attorney on the case.
Attorneys representing St. John’s Abbey and Father Gilbert Tarlton reached a settlement Monday with lawyers representing the victim known in court records as “Doe 2.” The case was scheduled to go to court May 4.
The suit was filed in 2013 on behalf of a man who was a freshman at St. John’s Preparatory School in Minnesota in 1977. The man, who wanted to be identified as a survivor, said there were at least 100 incidents of grooming and abuse at the hands of Tarlton.
Six years prior, Tarlton was a principal at Holy Cross Parish School in Louisville but was removed from the school before completing his first year said Mike Finnegan, the attorney representing the Minnesota survivor.
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