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New Orleans’ Jesuit high school agrees to pay seven figures to settle child molestation claim

A grand-looking brick building with columns and vaulted windows.
The Jesuit high school in New Orleans. Photograph: Google Maps

One of the most prominent Catholic high schools in New Orleans has agreed to pay a seven-figure monetary sum to settle a lawsuit claiming child molestation by janitors at the institution decades earlier.

The plaintiff struck the agreement with Jesuit high school ahead of a trial scheduled to start in the Louisiana city’s civil district courthouse on 15 June, roughly six years after he sued under a pseudonym.

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