NEW ORLEANS (LA)
The New Orleans Advocate
June 20, 2018
By Jim Mustian
[Note: When it appeared several weeks ago, this article was not blogged in Abuse Tracker.]
The Archdiocese of New Orleans has paid more than a half-million dollars to settle claims that a longtime deacon and teacher repeatedly raped an altar boy at Holy Rosary School in New Orleans more than three decades ago.
The settlement, paid this month, brought a swift conclusion to a lawsuit filed earlier this year that accused the archdiocese of allowing a “sexual predator” to work among children in Our Lady of the Rosary Parish and doing “nothing to intervene and prevent such misconduct from occurring.”
The lawsuit, filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court, claimed the abuse began in 1979, when the boy was 8 years old and in the third grade, and continued until he was in the sixth grade.
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