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Fort Myers News-Press, news source August 19, 2014
Fort Myers, Florida (News-Press) — An attorney for survivors of clergy sexual abuse is planning to announce a pre-litigation settlement of a child sexual abuse and cover-up claim against the Diocese of Venice involving the Rev. Jean Ronald Joseph.
The allegations relate to Joseph’s abuse of a teenage boy while assigned to St. Francis Xavier parish in Fort Myers, according to a news release from attorney Adam Horowitz.
In 2009, allegations against Joseph by a 31-year-old man were made public by the Diocese of Venice. Joseph denied the abuse, which was alleged to have happened at St. Francis Xavier about 15 years ago.
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