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Desperate to put the worst behind it, the Boston archdiocese agreed last week to pay $20 million to $30 million to settle the high-profile lawsuits brought by 86 victims of defrocked priest John Geoghan. But that was hardly all that the scandal has cost Boston's Catholics. In confidential settlements intended to avoid any whiff of publicity, the church, starting in 1994, gave $15 million to a group of victims molested by Geoghan. In one instance, according to the Boston Globe, a single family got $400,000 to hush up the sexually explicit phone calls Geoghan made...
...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...
UNITED STATES Internet Arrests Police operations in the U.S. and Europe broke up two major Internet pornography rings. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the success of Operation Candyman, which resulted in charges of trading graphic sexual images of children against 86 people, including a police officer, a Catholic priest and a school bus driver. German police uncovered a worldwide Internet pedophile ring, which resulted in arrests of 12 men in 10 countries...
...When Doe got to St. Thomas, the man he found who was most like that priest was Father Anthony O'Connell - whom the students called simply "O'C" - the seminary's co-founder and rector, who became Doe's spiritual counselor as well as his English grammar teacher. O'Connell, then 44, was a burly, 5'11", 250-lb Irishman who had come to this country in the 1960s and had set out to create a model seminary. What Doe alleges O'Connell left behind instead was a pattern of sexually abusing the boys in his charge - and a swath...
...from 10 PM to 4 AM, went on sometimes two, three times a month - basically, says Doe, whenever O'Connell had the urge, until Doe graduated from St. Thomas in 1986 (in the summer of 1984, while O'Connell drove Doe home for vacation, Does says he and the priest even stayed overnight in a hotel room, where they slept together naked). In the late 1980s, as Doe was pursuing ordination - and even after O'Connell was named bishop of the newly formed diocese of Knoxville, Tenn. in 1988 - O'Connell kept pursuing Doe, who admits he felt compelled...