LOUISVILLE (KY)
WKYT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. A judge gave plaintiffs' lawyers the go-ahead today to advertise terms of a potential 120 (m) million dollar settlement between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington and alleged victims of sexual abuse.
Judge John W. Potter's written order was issued in Boone County Circuit Court in Burlington. It came in a class-action lawsuit accusing the northern Kentucky diocese of a decades-long cover-up of sexual abuse by priests.
The order formalized his preliminary approval of the proposed settlement.
Potter also agreed to expand potential plaintiffs to include those allegedly abused before 1956 or allegedly victimized by lay employees of the diocese.
Posted by kshaw at July 20, 2005 06:32 PM