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Salesian Order Settles L.A. Archdiocese Priest Abuse Case for $19.5 Million (Los Angeles Times, 2008)

Los Angeles Times, 2008

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Los Angeles Times reporting by Richard Winton, 15 May 2008. The Salesian Society (Salesians of Don Bosco) settled the final Los Angeles Archdiocese era priest abuse lawsuit against it for 19.5 million dollars, split among 17 plaintiffs, just after a jury had been seated in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The suit centered on Father Titian Miani, accused of abusing children in Italy and Canada before the Salesians assigned him to St John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, in the 1960s. The Salesians were the only religious order active in the Los Angeles Archdiocese that had declined to join the Archdiocese's own 660 million dollar settlement with abuse victims in 2007, instead litigating and settling this case separately.

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Author
Richard Winton
Publisher
Los Angeles Times
Publication Year
2008
URL
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2008/05_06/2008_05_15_Winton_SalesiansSettle.htm
Source Type
news
Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
Tier 2: contemporaneous major daily newspaper reporting on the settlement's own court filing, the same tier this atlas already gives the Irish Times' and Skagit Valley Herald's reporting on the Christian Brothers' and Jesuits' own settlement figures.
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This source names California directly: "John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, in the 1960s."

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This source names Canada directly: "of abusing children in Italy and Canada before the Salesians assigned him to St John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, in the 1960s."

Los Angeles, Cities

This source names Los Angeles directly: "Los Angeles Times reporting by Richard Winton, 15 May 2008."

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