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Last December, Shannon Pitts became one of the casualties. Pitts, 31, of Portland, Ore., signed up to go on TLC's home-makeover show Trading Spaces, on which pairs of neighbors assisted by an often domineering decorator get two days and $1,000 to redo a room in each other's houses. Pitts volunteered her paneled family room, complete with mounted deer heads, envisioning it transformed into a spruced-up haven for her kids...
...Cable (part of AOL Time Warner, which also publishes this magazine) similarly suggests that its high-speed Internet customers who are interested in networking check out a website featuring products by Sohoware, a Linksys competitor. For now, the promotion is limited to a few markets, including Wilmington, N.C., and Portland, Maine...
...shock is that so many cases have spilled like stained vestments into public view--not just in Boston but in Los Angeles and St. Louis, Mo., and Philadelphia and Palm Beach, Fla., and Washington and Portland, Maine, and Bridgeport, Conn. The horror is not their singularity but their ghastly similarity: claims of a Roman Catholic priest sexually abusing children, and the church covering it up whether it involves Father Dan or Father Oliver or Father Rocco...
...Geoghan victims on a sliding scale of severity: more for rape, less for a flash of nudity. Yet the cash doesn't go far. In 1992 David Gagnon, 37, quietly settled his suit for three years of sexual molestation by the Rev. Michael Doucette, one of two active Portland, Me., priests suspended March 9. After paying his legal bill, typically one-third of the total award, Gagnon netted $63,000. That kept him going for a year with therapy at $150 an hour. But 22 years after Father Doucette destroyed his trust, Gagnon has yet to regain his emotional footing...
...pedophile drain on Catholic coffers already is estimated to top $1 billion nationwide. Maine's church spent nearly $1 million to cover up past abuse allegations and is bracing for fresh claims against the two Portland priests. When Florida's Bishop of Palm Beach Anthony O'Connell resigned March 10, after revelations that he had fondled a student 25 years ago, church officials disclosed that they had handed the victim $125,000 to quash a lawsuit in 1996. In the past decade, four dioceses (see chart) have laid out $96.2 million in settlements. And these are only the ones that...