Paris, France, March 26, 2026 (AFP) - French court orders ex-bishop to pay over 1970s child sex abuse

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2026-03-26

A Paris court has ordered a former Catholic bishop to pay more than $200,000 in damages to a man who accused him of rape and sexual assault in the 1970s, a ruling seen by AFP on Thursday showed. Jean-Michel di Falco, 84, was accused of sexual abuse while he was a priest and headmaster of the Saint-Thomas d'Aquin school in Paris between 1972 and 1975. Prosecutors had dropped a criminal investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse against the......

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