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The Columbus Dispatch
By JoAnne Viviano
The Columbus Dispatch • Monday March 28, 2016
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus has agreed to a financial settlement with a man who says he was repeatedly sexually abused as a teenager by a priest who worked at a diocesan high school, said an attorney who represents the man.
Mitchell Garabedian of Boston said his client was 16 when he was first abused by the Rev. Ronald Atwood in 1975. The abuse, he said, continued until 1980 and happened in Atwood’s office at Bishop Ready High School on the West Side and at various locations during road trips to places such as Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri.
Garabedian said the settlement “in the low five figures” was reached in February 2015. He released the details on Monday along with information about cases he’s settled since early last year involving 15 other priests and religious brothers.
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