Litigation
Oct. 26, 2011
Jurors clear priests in sex abuse case
An Orange County jury cleared two Catholic priests of sex abuse claims, but the priests' religious order still will pay the plaintiffs $400,000 in damages.
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SANTA ANA - An Orange County jury last week found that two Catholic priests did not molest two young brothers in the early 1990s, but the priests' religious order still will pay the plaintiffs $400,000 in damages.
Under a so-called "high-low agreement," the Franciscan Friars of California would have paid the two unnamed plaintiffs $1.4 million if the jury had found either had been abused, according to attorneys. Doe v...
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