LOS ANGELES TIMES
August 21, 2001
By JEAN O. PASCO and WILLIAM LOBDELL, Times Staff Writers
The Catholic Church disclosed Monday that it has paid $5.2 million and made significant changes in the way it handles allegations of sexual abuse to settle a lawsuit alleging that a prominent Orange County priest and onetime high school principal molested one of his students.
The agreement between the Los Angeles and Orange dioceses and Ryan DiMaria of Laguna Hills appears to be the largest publicly disclosed payout of its kind to an individual in church history, experts said...
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-082101priest.story
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