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	Another Suit against Church Goes to Trial Rutland Herald August 12, 2008 http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/NEWS01/808120328/1002/NEWS01 MONTPELIER — Three months after being socked with a $8.7 million verdict in a priest sex abuse case, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington returns to court this week to defend its handling of a rogue priest who allegedly molested altar boys. Jury selection is set for today in a civil suit brought by a man who says Rev. Edward Paquette molested him when he was a student at Christ the King school in Burlington. The case is being tried in Chittenden County Superior Court in Burlington, where a jury on May 13 returned the $8.7 million verdict in the case of a former Christ the King altar boy who said Paquette molested him dozens of times. In that trial, jurors were told that church leaders knew Paquette had been the subject of molestation allegations before coming to Vermont and that he was hired anyway. The jury found that Diocesan officials had engaged in negligent supervision and ordered compensatory and punitive damages for the victim in that case. The Diocese, which faces more than a dozen other suits over Paquette, is appealing the verdict.
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