SAN ANTONIO (TX)
San Antonio Express-News
By Abe Levy
Updated 6:50 pm, Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Archdiocese of San Antonio and a Floresville man who claimed he was 12 when his priest began to molest him in the late 1970s have reached an out-of-court settlement.
The agreement, whose terms were not disclosed, ends more than two years of litigation against the archdiocese.
Also named in the lawsuit was Louis Paul White, whom the Vatican had removed from the priesthood in 1989. When he did not appear in court Monday for the start of a trial, state District Judge Cathleen Stryker issued a nearly $181 million default judgment against him.
Observers said the prospects of collecting the judgment were slim but it sent a strong message of backing the Floresville man’s account.
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