WASHINGTON
The News Tribune
BY ALEXIS KRELL
akrell@thenewstribune.com
A teacher who sexually abused students at Catholic schools across the country did the same at a Pierce County public school, where the church helped him get hired, two lawsuits allege.
The Seattle Archdiocese recently agreed to settle one of the suits for $1.3 million; the other is ongoing.
Both were brought by adults who say they were abused as children at Parkland Elementary School in the 1980s by teacher Edward Courtney. Both suits blame the archdiocese for Courtney being hired at the public school.
Courtney was part of the Christian Brothers religious order, and was on a list the archdiocese released last year of 77 other brothers, priests, deacons and nuns accused of abusing children.
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