Settlement for last plaintiff in church abuse case

SEATTLE (AP)

The last remaining plaintiff in a priest sex-abuse trial against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle has settled his case. Both The Seattle Times and Seat t lePI .com repor t the 44-year-old suburban Auburn man settled late Tuesday for $700,000. He testified earlier in the day in the King County Superior Court trial about the abuse he said he suffered as an eighth-grader in the late 1970s when Patrick O'Donnell was a priest at his Seattle parish. A second plaintiff in the trial settled Monday; two others settled before the trial began. This has been the first lawsuit agai...