The Archdiocese of Washington has reached a settlement with a man who said he was sexually abused as a teenager by a former priest, George A. Stallings Jr., and another man, a seminarian, at St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church in the District.
Stallings, one of two men accused in the lawsuit, broke from the Catholic Church in 1989 and founded the Imani Temple, a congregation that combines Catholic rites with African music and customs. Stallings did not return calls Tuesday. He has denied allegations of abuse in the past.
According to the lawsuit, the complainant said he was initially abused at age 14 by a seminarian training in Stallings’s rectory called Brother Joseph. The lawsuit says the complainant’s brother reported the abuse to Stallings the day after the incident, but the teenager was abused again shortly afterward by the seminarian and Stallings in summer 1984.
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