BURLINGTON (VT)
Associated Press via U.S. News and World Report
January 19, 2018
A Vermont-based religious order is among several Roman Catholic groups that agreed to a $900,000 settlement in an alleged priest sex-abuse case in Connecticut dating to the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Burlington Free Press reports the Society of St. Edmund and several Roman Catholic entities in Connecticut recently agreed to split the settlement paid to 50-year-old Andrew Aspinwall, of New London.
Aspinwall, who agreed to be identified publicly, alleged he was abused by now-defrocked priest Charles Many, a Vermont native and member of the society, while he was serving as an altar boy at Sacred Heart Church in Groton.
The settlement, reached last month ahead of a trial scheduled for this month, contained no admission of wrongdoing. Aspinwall’s attorney, Kelly Reardon, says Many vehemently denied any impropriety. The case was withdrawn Wednesday.
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