CONNECTICUT
The Day
By Karen Florin
Publication: theday.com
Published 09/13/2012
Hartford — A New London woman resolved her civil lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Norwich today just as her attorney was set to tell a jury how the late Rev. Thomas W. Shea molested her in 1976.
Mary Maynard, who had previously been known only as Jane Doe, had decided to go public with her story even though she had the right to remain anonymous. Her attorney said, after a judge had announced the $1.1 million settlement, that she wished the public to know there will be no secrets in her life.
A jury had been selected and evidence was to begin in Superior Court in Hartford when the diocese agreed to settle the case. Judge Robert L. Holzberg, who mediated the settlement on his last day of work as a judge, donned a black robe for the last time to announce the 11th-hour agreement from the bench. He is returning to private practice.
The talks began Wednesday afternoon, according to New London attorney Robert I. Reardon Jr., who represents the 49-year-old plaintiff. The outcome remained unresolved this morning, and the jurors assembled at the courthouse as instructed.
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