SEATTLE (WA)
Seattle Times
Mediation talks this week between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle and 15 people with claims of abuse by priests resulted in a $1.8 million settlement.
The archdiocese reached a definitive settlement with 12 people, including two parents of a man who said he'd been molested, and is close to a settlement with a 13th person, said archdiocese attorney Michael Patterson.
Twelve of the claims involved past molestation by the Rev. James McGreal, generally considered the archdiocese's most notorious offender.
Civil suits against McGreal, who is barred from ministry and living in a supervised church facility in Missouri, have resulted in multimillion-dollar settlements.
Posted by kshaw at December 18, 2004 07:12 AM