Litigation
Jul. 18, 2007
Church Abuse Plaintiffs End Legal Battle in L.A.
Plaintiffs’ attorneys Paul Kiesel, left, and Ray Boucher rally outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse Monday with Lee Bashforth and other victims of clergy abuse who brought photos of themselves as children. The Los Angeles Archdiocese settled hundreds of sex-abuse suits for $660 million.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - When Anthony Almeida walked into a downtown Los Angeles office building last month the 44-year-old firefighter thought he was prepared to face Cardinal Roger Mahony's lawyers.
But when attorneys for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles repeatedly asked Almeida to recount how a parish priest sodomized him as a chi...
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