By Tonya Alanez
The Sun-Sentinel
June 27, 2007
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-627priestsued,0,6266564.story?coll=sfla-news-broward
Fort Lauderdale — Two Broward men who sued the Archdiocese of Miami after accusing a retired Catholic priest of sexually abusing them when they were boys settled their civil cases this week.
Neil Doherty, 64, a former priest at St. Vincent's Catholic Church in Margate, faces multiple counts of sexual battery, lewd and lascivious acts and molestation in a pending criminal case stemming from one of the victim's allegations.
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The amounts of the settlement are confidential, said the plaintiffs' Miami-based attorney Jeffrey Herman.
In 2005, Herman filed a $25 million civil suit on behalf of John Doe 22, alleging that Doherty drugged, molested and raped him numerous times at the church's rectory beginning when he was 11 years old. Those allegations, spanning from 1997 to about 2001, are at the heart of Doherty's criminal case.
The second case, involves John Doe 28, who says Doherty sexually abused him two times in 2000 when he was 14. He was not drugged, Herman said.
Tonya Alanez can be reached at tealanez@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4542.
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