CALIFORNIA
Pasadena Star-News
By Maritza Velazquez, SGVN
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Posted: 08/16/2012
ROSEMEAD – The University of the West terminated its director of student life after learning of a history of sexual abuse allegations lodged against the former Catholic Franciscan brother, an official with the university said Thursday.
Thomas Thing, 53, was placed on administrative leave last month following news reports that he was involved in a 2011 legal settlement with a Nevada man who accused Thing of sexually molesting and assaulting him in the mid-1980s when he was in the seventh-grade.
Thing has since been terminated from his post at the University of the West, Mason Yost, an attorney representing the Buddhist university said Thursday.
“We’ve read newspaper accounts and heard about lawsuits and settlements,” Yost said. “There has never been any complaints while he was employed at University of the West, but it was decided that he would leave and that he is no longer employed there as of Aug. 3.”
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