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Jason Berry of the National Catholic Reporter in New Orleans

Two half-brothers, in prison for killing a priest, tell a story of abuse in New Orleans

a guard tower at a prison
The Louisiana state penitentiary in Angola on 3 September 2025. Photograph: Matthew Hinton/AFP via Getty Images

More than 600 alleged survivors of clergy abuse have claims against the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans in its long bankruptcy. Attorneys Frank Lamothe III and Kristi Schubert have 75 clients. Twenty-three of them are prisoners, and most of them allege abuse at two long-shuttered orphanages, Hope Haven and Madonna Manor.

Two of these men had a different path to prison.

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