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By Edith Brady-Lunny eblunny@pantagraph.com
PEORIA — The family of a former student at Epiphany School in Normal will announce on Tuesday a $1.35 million settlement in an abuse case involving allegations against a deceased parish priest, and release the deposition of Archbishop John Myers, the former bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria.
Andrew Ward, now 25 and living in Michigan, filed a lawsuit in 2008 accusing the late Monsignor Thomas Maloney of sexually abusing him at Epiphany Catholic Church between 1995 and 1996 when Ward was in the second grade.
The settlement was reached several weeks ago, but details will be publicly disclosed Tuesday in Newark, N.J., where Myers serves as archbishop, said Minnesota lawyer Jeff Anderson, who represents Ward.
Diocesan Chancellor Patricia Gibson was not aware of the press conference and had no comment on the settle-ment.
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