The Archdiocese of Miami has agreed to settle six separate sexual abuse cases, including two involving Neil Doherty, a Broward priest accused of drugging and raping boys in incidents dating back to 1973.The civil suits were settled in the past few weeks for $750,000. The cases include alleged sexual abuse that occurred in Broward and Miami-Dade counties mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. Doherty, 64, raped a boy over a five-year period, starting when the boy was 11. Doherty has a court hearing today to ask a judge if he can remove the electronic ankle bracelet he has been wearing since he was released from jail on bond pending his trial. Doherty's lawyer said his client is having difficulty sleeping with the device.
Among the civil suits that settled:
• Two male victims alleged that they were drugged and raped by Doherty when he was a drug and alcohol counselor for the Archdiocese in the 1970s.
• A woman said she was abused in 2005 by the Rev. David Dueppen, who at the time worked for St. Francis De Sales in Miami Beach.
• The Rev. Don Walk, who at one point was chaplain for the Miami Dolphins, was not assigned to a particular church at the time -- in the '70s and '80s -- of the alleged abuse of a male teenager.
''This is the church's effort into moving forward and bringing closure and resolution,'' said spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta.
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Don Walk also abused me.
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