Experienced Sexual Abuse Lawyers
Our attorneys who focus on sexual abuse cases are among the most well-prepared and successful in the nation. Recently, they secured a landmark $60 million class action settlement for more than 170 Haitian young men who were sexually abused as minors at a Catholic school. These sexual abuse lawsuits were filed against the Society of Jesus of New England, Fairfield University, the Order of Malta, Hope Carter, Father Paul Carrier, and Fairfield graduate Douglas Perlitz.
Previously, Perlitz was convicted of sex abuse by a Connecticut court and is currently serving a 20-year sentence. The criminal investigations, headed by the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Interpol and the United Nations, found he was sexually abusing underprivileged boys who lived and attended school at a Cap-Haitien orphanage overseen by the Society.
In 2013, the same defendants paid $12 million to settle similar claims brought by 24 other young men.
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