Now that the Diocese of Covington has agreed to pay $5.2 million -- an amount greater than all its previous sexual-abuse payouts combined -- to settle two Lexington-area lawsuits, attorneys and officials look to the next case. It is sobering. The Cincinnati firm of Waite, Schneider, Bayless and Chesley is pursuing a separate class-action suit against the diocese in Boone Circuit Court on behalf of all victims of sexual abuse by priests in the past 50 years.
Posted by Editor at October 15, 2003 11:26 AM