NEW ORLEANS (LA)
The Advocate
March 11, 2019
By Ramon Antonio Vargas
A volunteer firefighter from North Carolina who claimed that he was sexually abused in 7th grade by
disgraced former New Orleans deacon George Brignac settled his lawsuit with the Archdiocese of New Orleans last week.
The amount of the settlement paid to Morris Daniels, who claimed to have been repeatedly abused by Brignac while a student at Holy Rosary School in the early 1980s, wasn’t disclosed by either side. But the plaintiff’s attorney, Roger Stetter, described the figure as “substantial” during an interview Monday.
Stetter said he and Daniels, 49, opted to settle the case rather than proceed to trial so that the plaintiff could get a measure of finality without having to again recount the abuse he allegedly suffered at the hands of Brignac, a suspected serial child molester.
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