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	Archdiocese Agrees to Pay Former Altar Boy By Dave Altimari Hartford Courant March 5, 2008 http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/hcu-foley0305,0,1471894.story The Archdiocese of Hartford today agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to a former Bloomfield altar boy who charged that he was sexually abused by the Rev. Stephen Foley. The settlement was reached on the day jury selection was to begin for a civil trial scheduled to start March 18. F. Glenn Sutherland had sued the church and Foley in 2002 claiming he was sexually molested by Foley while he was an altar boy at Christ the King Church in the early 1970s. Sutherland becomes the 12th man that the archdiocese has paid to settle sexual abuse claims against Foley, who also was the former state police chaplain. Foley had been living at St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield until last March, when he was ordered to leave after The Courant reported he was driving around in a fully loaded Ford Crown Victoria, similar to what state police troopers drive. The men who have made allegations against Foley since 1993 contend that the priest lured them with his position as chaplain and his pseudo-police car. They were attracted by the lights and sirens, they said, and the access Foley had to fire and accident scenes, lawsuits allege. Most of the alleged incidents occurred during the 1970s, including those alleged by Sutherland. Foley has never been criminally charged. In addition to ordering Foley to leave the seminary, Archbishop Henry J. Mansell ordered him to sell the Crown Victoria. He turned in the license plates for the car last April, state records show. Foley has apparently moved to Virginia and his attorneys indicated he would not be returning to Connecticut to testify at the trial. That led Robert Reardon, the attorney representing Sutherland, to spend the last week trying to get Superior Court Judge Lois Tanzer to order Foley's attorneys to turn over his Virginia address so he could be subpoenaed to a video deposition. Foley was expected to show up at a Virginia law firm Wednesday afternoon to pick up his subpoena and was scheduled to be deposed a week before the trial was to begin.
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