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Archdiocese to Pay $1.6M to Settle Priest Abuse Suit

Archdiocese Offices on Lindell Blvd. (KWMU file photo)
Archdiocese Offices on Lindell Blvd. (KWMU file photo)

By AP/KWMU

St. Louis, MO – The St. Louis Archdiocese says it will pay more than $1.6 million to a boy who was sexually molested by a priest.

The settlement is the largest ever paid by the archdiocese to a victim of priest sex abuse. Reverend Gary Wolken pleaded guilty two years ago to statutory sodomy and child molestation in the case.

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