Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa agrees to settle sex abuse lawsuit
Oakland, California -
The Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa has agreed to pay more than $3.3 million to a woman who claims she was sexually abused by priest more than 20 years ago, the victim's attorney said Friday.
Former Santa Rosa resident Roberta Saum, 44, will receive $3,315,000 - the largest settlement for a female victim of sexual abuse by a priest in this country and the third largest for any California victim, according to her attorney Jeff Anderson.
The lawsuit, one of 10 filed against the Santa Rosa Diocese, was settled before the case could reach trial, which was scheduled to begin next month.
Diocese attorneys did not immediately return calls seeking comment Friday.
Saum, a software engineer who now lives in the Sierra foothills, said she was abused and exploited by Don Kimball, now defrocked, between 1976 and 1982 when she was a student at Resurrection Parish in Santa Rosa.
Kimball's conviction was erased by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that California could not prosecute decades-old sex abuse cases. But in 2002, the state temporarily lifted the statute of limitations for filing civil lawsuits alleging old sex abuse, leading to Friday's settlement.
Read the article at AP Wire Dated 04/22/05
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The Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa has agreed to pay more than $3.3 million to a woman who claims she was sexually abused by priest more than 20 years ago, the victim's attorney said Friday.
Former Santa Rosa resident Roberta Saum, 44, will receive $3,315,000 - the largest settlement for a female victim of sexual abuse by a priest in this country and the third largest for any California victim, according to her attorney Jeff Anderson.
The lawsuit, one of 10 filed against the Santa Rosa Diocese, was settled before the case could reach trial, which was scheduled to begin next month.
Diocese attorneys did not immediately return calls seeking comment Friday.
Saum, a software engineer who now lives in the Sierra foothills, said she was abused and exploited by Don Kimball, now defrocked, between 1976 and 1982 when she was a student at Resurrection Parish in Santa Rosa.
Kimball's conviction was erased by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that California could not prosecute decades-old sex abuse cases. But in 2002, the state temporarily lifted the statute of limitations for filing civil lawsuits alleging old sex abuse, leading to Friday's settlement.
Read the article at AP Wire Dated 04/22/05
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