An $800,000 settlement has been reached between the Archdiocese of Chicago and individuals who accused five clergymen of sexual abuse, lawyers for the plaintiffs have confirmed.
The claims were made against five religious leaders, including the Rev. George Clements, a prominent black Catholic priest, and civil rights activist who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago, Alabama, and Mississippi.
He also became the first Catholic priest in the Chicago area to adopt a child in 1981.
Clements served as pastor at Holy Angels Parish in the Bronzeville neighborhood from 1969 to 1991, as well as a number of other parishes in Chicago, and became the second black priest to be ordained in the Chicago Archdiocese.
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