CONNECTICUT
CT Post
Michael P. Mayko
Updated 6:00 p.m., Friday, August 10, 2012
HARTFORD — Lawyers seeking hundreds of millions of dollars for 23 Haitian street boys who claim they were sexually abused by Fairfield University alumnus Douglas Perlitz asked a federal judge late Thursday to reassign the cases because of his Jesuit ties.
U.S. District Judge Robert Chatigny, who’s presiding over the case, has a law degree from Georgetown University, which is operated by the Society of Jesus’ Maryland Province. The Society of Jesus’ New England Province is one of the defendants in the case.
Mitchell Garabedian, a Boston lawyer who heads the plaintiffs’ legal team, requested that the cases be assigned to U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven.
Arterton handled Perlitz’s criminal case and sentenced Perlitz to 19 years and seven months in prison for traveling overseas to engage in sex with a minor.
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