NEW YORK
New York Daily News
MICHAEL O’KEEFFE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Bergen Catholic High School has agreed to pay $1.9 million to 21 men who say they were molested by 11 teachers during the 1960s and 1970s, but the former student who sparked the settlement talks is not part of the deal because he has refused to take down a website detailing sexual and physical abuse at the school.
Kobutsu Malone said lawyers for the Oradell, N.J., school want to silence him in hopes of making the sex-abuse scandal go away with as little fanfare as possible.
“Considering the charges we are making, to find the school in a– covering mode rather than healing mode is really disgusting,” said Malone, a 66-year-old Buddhist monk who now lives in Maine.
The school agreed to the settlement in November, but the deal was not made public until Monday.
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