Saturday, May 19, 2007

NY diocese loses sex abuse lawsuit

N.Y. diocese loses sex abuse lawsuit (AP)

Michael Dowd, center, and Ben Rubinowitz, right, attorney's for the plaintiffs congratulate each other after a jury found the nation's sixth-largest Roman Catholic diocese and a church parish negligent Friday, May 18, 2007, in Nassau County Supreme Court, in Mineola, N.Y., in a case involving a youth minister who repeatedly raped and sodomized teenagers in his care over several years. At far left is the defendants attorney Kevin McNiff. The jury awarded the two victims a combined $11.4 million in damages in one of the rare civil cases to go to trial in the wake of the nationwide Catholic sex abuse scandal that erupted five years ago. (AP Photo/Dick Yarwood, Pool) (AP Photo/Dick Yarwood, Pool)AP - Several civil lawsuits have arisen from allegations of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church, but few have gone to trial. Most were settled out of court.


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