DOE v. HARTFORD ROMAN CATH. DIOCESAN CORP.

Nos. 19131, 19132.

119 A.3d 462 (2015)

317 Conn. 357

Jacob DOE v. HARTFORD ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided July 7, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Sitarz and Wesley W. Horton , with whom was Lorinda S. Coon , Hartford, for the appellant (defendant).

Hugh D. Hughes , with whom were Thomas McNamara and, on the brief, William F. Gallagher , New Haven, for the appellee (plaintiff).

Brenden P. Leydon , Stamford, filed a brief for the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association as amicus curiae.

ROGERS, C.J., and PALMER, ZARELLA, EVELEIGH, McDONALD and ROBINSON, Js.


A jury found that the defendant, the Hartford Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation, acted negligently and recklessly when it assigned Father Ivan Ferguson, an alcoholic whose admitted acts of child molestation were understood to be linked to his drinking, to serve as the director of Saint Mary's Elementary School in Derby (Saint Mary...

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