Saturday, March 15, 2025

Survivor who ignited US Catholic church’s reckoning with abuse killed in Louisiana

When Gastal first publicly shared his abuse, the Catholic diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, had already paid more than $4m in confidential settlements to nine families whose children who were molested by Gauthe. Gastal's family, however, declined to settle and sued the diocese, alleging that the church so badly failed to protect the boy from Gauthe that the abuse inflicted on the child sent him to the hospital with rectal bleeding at one point...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/church-abuse-survivor-louisiana-killed


 

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