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Sex-Abuse Claims Against Fairfield University Non-Profit Settled For $60M Sex-Abuse Claims Against Fairfield University Non-Profit Settled For $60M
Sex-Abuse Claims Against Fairfield University Non-Profit Settled For $60M Fairfield University and four other religious and charitable organizations have reached a $60 million settlement regarding alleged sexual abuse from a graduate. In a statement released on Friday, the university announced that it has “agreed to a second and concluding legal settlement with a group of individuals who came forward with allegations that they were sexually abused in Haiti in the late 1990s and early 2000s by Douglas Perlitz, a Fairfield University alumnus. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Haitian minors by Mitchell Garabedian, a Boston-based lawyer, who has made a name for h…

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