GEORGIA
WTOC
By Don Logana, Anchor
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) –
The Catholic Diocese of Savannah is paying big time for the sins of a former priest once again.
WTOC has learned this settlement, the largest Catholic Church sex abuse settlement in Georgia history and the third largest in the country, was reached last week.
The Catholic Diocese of Savannah is no stranger to lawsuits filed by victims claiming they were victims of sexual abuse by a priest. This latest case was reported more than a year ago and last week a settlement, the largest ever in the state of Georgia, was reached.
“After 14 months of really hard fought litigation where we discovered a lot of interesting things about the exact deception and depth of the problems at the Catholic Church, we successfully got them to confess a judgement in favor of our client for $4.5 million,” said attorney Mark Tate.
The former priest in question, Wayland Yoder Brown, invoked his Fifth Amendment right when it came to questions about his alleged criminal abuse of Christopher Templeton in the late 1980s.
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