New Orleans’ Jesuit high school agrees to pay seven figures to settle child molestation claim

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Settlement over alleged child molestation by school janitors is latest in troubling string of allegations spanning decades

One of the most prominent Catholic high schools in https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-orleans">New Orleans has agreed to pay a seven-figure monetary sum to settle a lawsuit claiming child molestation by janitors at the institution decades earlier.

The plaintiff struck the agreement with https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/01/journalist-catholic-clergy-abuse-scandal-new-orleans">Jesuit high school ahead of a trial scheduled to start in the https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/louisiana">Louisiana city’s civil district courthouse on 15 June, roughly six years after he sued under a pseudonym.

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