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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS • Two women who sued a former St. Louis University president over abuse allegations — including one that claimed officials violated an agreement to bar her alleged abuser from teaching — have settled their cases for a total of $282,000, an activist group said Wednesday.
One suit claimed that the Rev. Daniel C. O’Connell sexually abused the student in 1983, while she was studying overseas and he was a chaplain. Both were associated with Loyola University Chicago at the time.
In 2003, she received a $181,000 settlement that included, among other things, promises that he would not teach again at a Jesuit institution and that he be barred from public ministry, according to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
She sued in 2013, claiming Jesuit officials violated the agreement by allowing O’Connell to teach and speak at universities and engage in public ministry in Germany. Lawyers for O’Connell and Jesuit officials denied the allegations.
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