MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
A Ramsey County jury Wednesday awarded more than $8 million to a survivor of clergy sex abuse in the first lawsuit to go to trial under Minnesota’s Child Victims Act. That law opened a three-year window to file claims for older incidents of abuse.
The 52-year-old plaintiff, identified as Doe 30, alleged he had been sexually abused by the Rev. James Vincent Fitzgerald at St. Catherine’s parish in Squaw Lake, Minn., in the late 1970s. The case centered on whether the Diocese of Duluth was negligent in how it supervised Fitzgerald, who died in 2009.
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