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Fairfield University and a charity designed to help educate boys in Haiti have – See more at:
reportedly reached a $12 million settlement with children who were sexually abused by a founder of the group.
The Connecticut Post reports that 24 boys sought damages in connection to abuse by Douglas Perlitz, who was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison in 2011 for the sexual assaults after admitting he engaged in sexual conduct with boys who attended the Project Pierre Touissant School in Cap-Haitien.
“This ends the litigation pending in the District of Connecticut in connection with the Perlitz matter,” Stanley Twardy Jr., Fairfield University’s lawyer, told the newspaper.
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