CONNECTICUT
Fox 61
BY JIM MCKEEVER
NEW HAVEN — A lawsuit involving allegations of clergy sex abuse with a minor and an alleged cover-up in the Catholic Church was settled Wednesday for $500,000.
Just weeks before the trial involving a former Connecticut-based Catholic priest, Stephen Bzdyra, was to begin, the Diocese agreed to settle the claim.
For the past five years, the Diocese fully contested liability, denying knowledge of sexual and physical abuse that was committed by Bzdyra.
The defense was compromised when a Catholic nun testified that while serving at St. Francis Church in New Haven, she not only witnessed Bzdyra’s disturbing and inappropriate behavior towards an altar boy in the mid-1980s, but she even sent a letter to diocesan authorities expressing her concerns.
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