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Portland Tribune
Created on Thursday, 10 December 2015 10:51 | Written by Tyler Francke
An $8.5 million lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, along with St. Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn, has been dismissed following an out-of-court settlement.
The complaint, filed last year on behalf of an unnamed Salem boy, was in connection with a 2012 sex abuse case involving former local priest Angel Armando Perez.
Perez was a priest at St. Luke in August 2012, when he was charged with first-degree sex abuse (a Measure 11 offense), driving under the influence of intoxicants and two counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor.
Under the terms of a plea agreement, Perez pleaded guilty in April 2013 and was assessed the mandatory minimum sentence for the sex abuse charge — six years, three months — which he is currently serving at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla.
The complaint was filed by the conservator and family of Perez’s victim, who was 12 at the time and who is identified in court documents only as “J.T.”
The case was scheduled for trial in Multnomah County court in March. However, on Oct. 26, a notice filed in the court record indicated the case had been dismissed “pending settlement,” and the trial and all other pending hearings were canceled.
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