CONNECTICUT
The Bristol Press
By ROBERT VARLEY, Journal Register News Service 11/01/2005
In what some are calling a move toward healing and recovery, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford has reached a $22 million settlement with 43 clergy sexual-abuse victims.
The settlement announced Monday covers alleged abuse by 14 priests, including the Rev. Thomas F. Glynn, who was a priest at St. Matthew Church in Forestville and allegedly told one of the victims, "I am God."
Glynn, who died in 1993, was accused in a lawsuit filed in 2003 of sexually assaulting four males, including an altar boy, while at St. Matthew Church during the 1960s. The incidents allegedly took place in the priest’s car as well as the church sacristy and rectory.
Kevin Zile, 52, who now lives on Cape Cod, said he was abused by Glynn, who was close to his family, from the age of 14 to 17, at St. Matthew and later at Holy Trinity in Wallingford and St. Clare in East Haven where Zile would visit the priest
Zile said the settlement can prevent others from being abused but won’t stop his flashbacks.
"There were times when I was driven to New York City and woke up in the back of the car, tied and being abused by men I didn’t know," Zile said.
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