As a teen, Doe told church officials what he’d suffered. And he would find a redacted version of his own account on the internet, detailing the abuse he said Lovell enacted when he was a child. On Tuesday, attorneys representing Doe, now 47, announced a $1.9-million settlement with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Lovell and the Claretian Missionaries, where Lovell served as a priest. Now married and a father of four, all of whom have been baptized in the Catholic church, Doe decided to take action. Lovell served in the Phoenix Diocese before moving to Los Angeles and returned there after leaving L.A. in 1984.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 30, 2020 20:35 UTC