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	Settlement Reached in Sex Abuse Case against Jesuit Priest Associated Press, carried in KTVA [Alaska] April 2, 2007 http://www.ktva.com/alaska/ci_5577671 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 two million dollar agreement, plus therapists fees, in their suit against the Reverend 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 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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