MAINE
Bangor Daily News
By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff
Posted Aug. 15, 2016
PORTLAND, Maine — A $1.2 million settlement has been reached between six childhood sex abuse victims of the Rev. James Vallely and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, the diocese announced Monday.
The lawsuits, filed separately in November in Cumberland County Superior Court, sought unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
“The Diocese of Portland has settled six claims alleging abuse by the Rev. James Vallely in the 1950s and the 1970s,” Dave Guthro, spokesman for the diocese, said Monday in an email.
Vallely died in 1997.
“The diocese hopes that this settlement brings a measure of peace to the people involved. The diocese respects the privacy and confidentiality of the victims/survivors involved in cases of sexual abuse of minors by clerics,” Guthro said. The Bangor Daily News is not naming them because they may be victims of sexual abuse.
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