December 18, 2008
Vermont Jury Awards Former Altar Boy $3.6 Million In Abuse Case
BURLINGTON, Vermont -- A jury awarded $3.6 million in damages Wednesday to a former Burlington altar boy molested by the Rev. Edward Paquette in the 1970s, the second time in a year the state's Roman Catholic diocese has been hit with multi-million dollar verdict in such a case. The seven-woman, five-man Chittenden Superior Court jury reached its decision just before 3 p.m. after nearly 13 hours of deliberation.Click Here For The Full Story......
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$3.6 Million Verdict In Vt. Priest Trial
BURLINGTON, Vermont -- In a potentially bankrupting slam to the state's largest religious denomination, a jury ruled Wednesday that Vermont's Catholic Church should pay nearly $3.6 million for negligence in hiring and supervising a pedophile priest. A panel of five men and seven women deliberated for 13 hours over two days before finding the statewide Roman Catholic Diocese liable in a Chittenden Superior Court lawsuit regarding the former Rev. Edward Paquette, who worked in Rutland in 1972, Montpelier in 1974 and Burlington in 1976.