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Court dismisses some, not all, claims in sex abuse case

Court dismisses some, not all, claims in sex abuse case

Court dismisses some, not all, claims in sex abuse case

In a lengthy opinion considering several counts seeking to impose liability on individuals and organizations in a sex abuse case, the federal District Court in Connecticut has granted motions to dismiss several counts, but denied the motions to dismiss several others. Douglas Perlitz, who founded Project Pierre Toussaint, a residential school for poor children in Haiti, had been convicted and sentenced to 235 months imprisonment for his admitted sexual abuse of children at the school. Some of the children sued for damages. In addition to naming Perlitz and the Haiti Fund, a nonprofit that operated the school, they named several others, including: Father Paul Carrier, who served as chairman...

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