Chicago Archdiocese reaches settlement over sex abuse claims against Rev. George Clements

In 1987, a made-for-TV movie called “The Father Clements Story” starred Louis Gossett, Junior, in the title role, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner as a youth he was helping.

Now, the Chicago Archdiocese is paying more than a $100,000 to a man who says Rev. George Clements sexually brutalized him.  

Lawyer Mitchell Garabedian says his client was a victim: “He was sexually abused by Father Clements at least 20 times. I’m not going to go into the graphic detail of the sexual abuse. But it’s the worst you could imagine.”

The Boston-based lawyer has a movie connection of his own. Actor Stanley Tucci played Garabedian in “Spotlight,” about clerical sexual abuse in Boston.

The settlement in the Clements case was among five announced Tuesday by Garabedian.  Although each of the sexual abuse allegations was too old to allow the filing of a lawsuit, the Chicago Archdiocese reviewed the complaints…