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Diocese Settles Sexual Abuse Case

By Frank Morris

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kcur/local-kcur-632992.mp3

Kansas City, MO – The Diocese of Kansas City and St Louis will pay 225-thousand dollars to an Independence man allegedly abused as an alter boy in the early 1970s. The case is one of the first of many considered under a new interpretation of Missouri's statute of limitations.

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