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Multi-Million Dollar Award Issued in Yakima Sexual Abuse Case
By Kevin Uretsky
A federal judge issued a $5 million civil judgment against former Yakima priest Father Dale Calhoun following a lawsuit filed by a man Calhoun sexually abused between the ages of 12 and 17. The Plaintiff filed his lawsuit under the pseudonym “C.S.” to protect his privacy. According to lawyers representing "C.S.", Calhoun’s abuse of young boys in Yakima and Beaumont has been the subject of several lawsuits over the years, including one case that was appealed to the Washington Supreme Court in 1998. That case, C.J.C. v. Corporation of the Catholic Bishop of Yakima, confirmed the right of victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring claims against priests and the Churches that hire them. The judgment against Fr. Calhoun is the largest civil judgment entered against an individual priest in Central and Eastern Washington.
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