Attorneys including Mike Reck, speaking at the lectern, and survivors of sexual abuse hold a news conference Wednesday outside the Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove to announce a $3.5-million settlement involving a former administrator at Mater Dei and Santa Margarita Catholic high schools. The Diocese of Orange has agreed to pay $3.5 million to a man who alleges he was …
The 15-year-old Santa Margarita Catholic High School student wasn’t sure what to expect when he heard loud cheering and banging sounds coming from the locker room that houses the varsity football team. “The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has not been contacted by anyone else from Santa Margarita Catholic High School — employees or students — who is claiming to be …
A handful of short sentences written by a police dispatcher laid out the allegation in stark detail. Bruce Rollinson, head coach of Mater Dei’s football team, told the boy’s father that he “would be a millionaire if he got paid $100 every time he heard about Bodies or other physical rituals” among the students, the lawsuit said. Waters, the former …
A Southern California woman alleged Thursday that a Mater Dei High School track and football coach repeatedly sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, while she was a student at the prestigious Catholic school. In a lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court against Mater Dei and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, the woman said coach Patrick Callahan assaulted her …