More of Portlands Best

[Seahawks]

who knows maybe it Vancouver?

 

 

8 men settle sex-abuse claims with Portland archdiocese

 

PORTLAND — Eight men who alleged a Roman Catholic priest molested them in the 1970s and 1980s reached confidential settlements with the Archdiocese of Portland.

 

The agreements Wednesday came a day after three of the plaintiffs testified during a series of mini-trials in U.S. District Court in Portland. The trials are expected to resume next week.

 

One man testified that the Rev. Donald Durand sexually abused him in a cabin near Detroit Lake in the early 1980s. Two former students at St. Francis of Assisi School said Durand punished them by ordering them to wrestle naked in the rectory basement.

 

Durand taught at St. Francis from 1970 to 1983. He was pastor at St. Clare in Southwest Portland from 1992 until he retired in 2001.

 

A videotape of him denying molesting children was played in court.

 

It was the first time that a priest sex-abuse case had gone before a jury in Oregon.

 

U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones has been overseeing the mini-trials, which are designed to help estimate the value of the claims to determine whether the Portland Archdiocese's $75 million bankruptcy plan has enough money set aside for unsettled claims.

 

Before the Durand settlements, more than 140 plaintiffs settled for about $40 million as part of a bankruptcy-ordered mediation.

 

The plan is expected to be approved in April

 

[Crux]

 

Maybe it yo mama drippin' another non sequitur and callin' it a seagawk

[Seahawks]

Maybe it yo mama drippin' another non sequitur and callin' it a seagawk

 

LOL evertime you write something I'm like "What the hell" So off the wall I can't even respond.

[archenemy]

It is certainly part of his charm.