The Archdiocese of Hartford reached a $2.4 million settlement with a man who says he was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a former priest Fr. Adolph Renkiewicz.
Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, renowned for representing clergy abuse victims, said the victim was abused more than 100 times between 1985 and 1990, when he was between the ages of 10 and 15, while serving as an altar boy.
The victim, who asked to remain anonymous, has shown “an enormous amount of courage” in coming forward, the law firm said.
Fr. Renkiewicz, ordained on May 10, 1956, served at various parishes, including Sacred Heart in New Britain, St. Ann in Devon, Immaculate Conception in Southington, and St. Stanislaus in Meriden.
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