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Chatham woman receives record-breaking settlement from Diocese of London
By Erica Bajer
Chatham Daily News
Thursday, May 7, 2009
A Chatham woman abused by pedophile priest Charles
Sylvestre has received what is being described as the
largest settlement of an individual sexual abuse case in
Canadian history.
Details of the settlement between Lou Ann Soontiens and the
Roman Catholic Diocese of London will be made public
tomorrow during a press conference in London.
In a news release, Ledroit Beckett Litigation Lawyers said
that after five years of childhood sexual abuse, a related
abortion and decades of living with the effects of abuse,
Soontiens has received her full measure of justice.
The case, which she launched three years ago, was settled
within days of the scheduled start of the trial.
Sylvestre was convicted in 2006 of indecently assaulting 47
girls between 1954 and 1985 while serving as parish priest
in churches in Chatham, Pain Court, Sarnia, London and
Windsor.
He was sentenced to three years behind bars. He died less
than six months into his prison term.
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