NEW ORLEANS — Some who spoke in federal court on Tuesday about being victimized in the had forgiven. Others had not.

None had forgotten, even decades later.

That much was clear from what was meant to be the final day of witness testimony in a three-week trial to determine the fairness of a $230 million settlement agreement between the archdiocese and roughly 600 people who allege abuse at the hands of priests, deacons and other church personnel.

If it eventually gains final approval as expected, the proposed settlement would conclude a bankruptcy protection case that the US’s second-oldest Catholic archdiocese filed in May 2020 amid the fallout of a decades-old scandal.

, who was 15 when he was raped at his school by a priest named Lawrence Hecker, was among about 20 survivors who ad

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