GEORGIA
WSAV
SAVANNAH, Ga. – A settlement was reached in the lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Savannah on charges of alleged sexual abuse by a priest.
The lawsuit, filed in Jasper County South Carolina, named former priest, and convicted child molester Wayland Yoder Brown who’s accused of abusing a 13-year-old boy in the late 1980s. It also named the bishop at the time of the alleged crime Raymond Lessard as well as acting Bishop Gregory Hartmayer.
The suit claimed that multiple warnings were given to the church hierarchy about Brown’s behavior by clergy members as early as 1969. He was a priest for the Diocese from 1979 until 1982 then again in 1987.
In 2003, Brown was convicted of molesting two minors in Maryland. He served 5 years of a 10 year sentence.
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