The lone Jesuit accused of abuse in the Diocese of Oakland was the Rev. Jerold Lindner, who was named in a 2003 lawsuit by a girl who said he molested her at Corpus Christi in Piedmont while he was serving at St. Ignatius Prep School in San Francisco. The lawsuit contends that from the 1950s to the 1980s, Lindner "abused and molested his 5-year-old nephew in Arizona and Berkeley," "sodomized and molested two brothers, ages 4 and 7," "orally copulated and sodomized his 11-year-old nephew" and "molested three nieces." Lindner has been accused by 10 men and women in Southern California, Phoenix and the Bay Area, the Los Angeles Times reported. Lindner has denied the allegations, but he was part of a secret $625,000 settlement in 1997, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Fr. Jerold Lindner, SJ gave Fr. James Chevedden, a Jesuit priest who had been allegedly assaulted sexually by Fr. Lindner's friend, Br. Charles Connor, a ride to jury duty in San Jose on May 19, 2004. Three hours later Fr. Chevedden was dead.
The Jesuit Order paid $1.6 million in January 2008 to settle the wrongful death lawsuit regarding Fr. Chevedden. Br. Connor was earlier named in another case where the Jesuit Order settled for $7 million regarding the sexual abuse of two retarded dishwasher employees of the Jesuit Order.
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