Archdiocese of New Orleans pushed confidential settlements with victims of monstrous deacon George Brignac
Lawyers representing the church or its insurers took a hard line, arguing that plaintiffs had waited too long, and that they would be lucky to get anything.
Author: David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator, Ramon Antonio Vargas / The New Orleans Advocate
Published: 10:58 AM CST December 18, 2020
Updated: 10:25 PM CST December 18, 2020
NEW ORLEANS — The email to the Archdiocese of New Orleans came in on a Friday in November 2018.
A week earlier, New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond had published a list of clergymen credibly accused of child molestation -- a first-ever effort by the leadership in this traditionally Catholic city to fully come clean about the depth of a scandal that blew up in 2002 and had begun to simmer again in the summer of 2018.