Archdiocese Agrees to Pay Former Altar Boy
The Archdiocese of Hartford agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to a former Bloomfield altar boy who charged that he was sexually abused by the Rev. Stephen Foley. The settlement was reached on the day jury selection was to begin for a civil trial scheduled to start March 18. F. Glenn Sutherland had sued the church and Foley in 2002 claiming he was sexually molested by Foley while he was an altar boy at Christ the King Church in the early 1970s. Sutherland becomes the 12th man that the archdiocese has paid to settle sexual abuse claims against Foley, who also was the former state police chaplain.
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Posted by Editor at March 13, 2008 02:55 PM