Man gets $6.33 million in Ill. priest-abuse case
(AP) BELLEVILLE, Ill. — A nine-year legal fight by a man sexually abused by a priest in the 1970s is over, now that a southern Illinois diocese and its insurer have handed over $6.3 million to resolve a jury award in the man's favor.Attorneys for the Diocese of Belleville turned over the checks during a hearing Wednesday in St. Clair County — three years after James Wisniewski (wihz-NOO'-skee) of Champaign won the $5 million jury award.
The additional $1.33 million includes interest accrued since that verdict.
Wisniewski sued in 2002, alleging that a former priest sexually abused him dozens of times for five years at St. Theresa's Parish in Salem. The lawsuit also claimed the diocese hid the one-time priest's suspected behavior and quietly shuffled him among parishes.
The diocese's attorneys declined comment.
James, so proud of you for hanging on in spite of nearly insurmountable obstacles!!! You are a hero. The Diocese of Belleville should be ashamed of itself for the stalling procedures it implemented all this time. I am sorry that you (and all of us) were victimized but maybe it is time for the church to be fought by those of us who were once the most vulnerable.
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10, 2011, in Belleville, where an attorney for Wisniewski is expected to get more than $6.3 millioin in payment as part of a lawsuit Wisniewski won against the Diocese of Belleville that had resisted the payout. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat,
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