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	Ex-Indiana Priest Named in Abuse Case By Robert King robert.king@indystar.com Indianapolis Star [Vermont] April 20, 2006 http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20060420/NEWS01/604200473/-1/ZONES04 A Roman Catholic diocese in Vermont has agreed to pay a record $965,000 settlement in a sexual abuse case involving a priest who had a documented history of abusing children at parishes in Indiana. The Diocese of Burlington agreed to settle with Michael Gay, 38, in the first of 12 cases involving former priest Edward O. Paquette. Paquette was a priest in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend from 1964-71. The Burlington Free Press reported that the settlement was the largest in a priest abuse case in Vermont's history. Burlington attorney Jerome O'Neill said the Vermont diocese knew Paquette had abused boys in three parishes when it hired him in 1974. It also knew he had abused two boys in Massachusetts prior to his Indiana stint. Paquette, who now lives in Massachusetts, served two parishes in South Bend, one in Elkhart and another in Decatur. Call Star reporter Robert King at (317) 444-6089.
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