WINONA, Minn. — Attorneys for the Winona-Rochester Diocese have a until November 11 to challenge a new $4.5 million jury award for sexual abuse. Guilt is no longer an issue. Up for review by Judge Nancy Buytendorp are details of the pay-out and even the total. At the $4.5 million decreed by the jury, the settlement is among the largest in the so-called “choir boy cases” against the Diocese going back decades.
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