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	Settlement Reached in Sex Abuse Case against Jesuit Priest Associated Press, carried in KTUU March 29, 2007 http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=6299440 Fairbanks, Alaska — A church official says two civil suits were settled against a former Jesuit priest who fathered at least two children and had sex with several women while serving in Alaska. Two men and two women from Western Alaska will share in a nearly $2 million agreement, plus therapist's fees, in their suit against the Rev. James E. Jacobson. The retired 83-year-old Jesuit priest served in Alaska from the early 1960s to 1976. The men sued Jacobson for child support. The women, one of whom is the mother of a male plaintiff, accused him of rape. The Very Reverend John D. Whitney is head of the Society of Jesus in Oregon. Whitney says he hopes that the agreement will start a process of reconciliation.
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