{"id":171693,"date":"2018-07-18T00:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T04:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=171693"},"modified":"2018-07-18T00:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T04:16:51","slug":"catholic-order-reaches-1m-settlement-over-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/18\/catholic-order-reaches-1m-settlement-over-sexual-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic order reaches $1M settlement over sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9203\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_78108895.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9203\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_78108895.jpg\" alt=\"Garabedian says five men and three women were abused by the Revs. John Gallagher and Robert Turnbull in the 1970s and early 1980s. (Photo: Shutterstock)\" width=\"461\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_78108895.jpg 461w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_78108895-768x832.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garabedian says five men and three women were abused by the Revs. John Gallagher and Robert Turnbull in the 1970s and early 1980s. (Photo: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BOSTON \u2013 A Roman Catholic order has agreed to pay $1 million to eight people who say they were sexually abused by two priests in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Globe reports attorney Mitchell Garabedian said Tuesday the settlement with his clients and the Order of Saint Augustine was decided last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Augustinians say they settled due to a \u201cdesire to promote healing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garabedian says five men and three women were abused by the Revs. John Gallagher and Robert Turnbull in the 1970s and early 1980s. The victims were 9 to 12 years old at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Garabedian says one of the victims wrote about her abuse to the late Cardinal Bernard Law, which proved that the former archbishop of Boston knew of sexual abuse by priests.<\/p>\n<p>Both Gallagher and Turnbull have since died.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2013 A Roman Catholic order has agreed to pay $1 million to eight people who say they were sexually &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":9203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[388,2391,357,4413,13454],"class_list":["post-171693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-abuse","tag-catholic","tag-child","tag-priest","tag-roman-catholic","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}