New Orleans clergy abuse survivors say they’ve lost confidence in case’s judge

Comments come after it was revealed judge ignored DoJ recommendations against expelling survivors from panel

Clergy abuse survivors who were ousted from a committee trying to negotiate a settlement resolving the New Orleans Catholic archdiocese’s bankruptcy say they have lost their confidence in the judge presiding over the case.

Their comments come after it was revealed that Judge Meredith Grabill ignored US justice department recommendations against expelling the survivors from the group, delivering the latest twist in the child sexual abuse scandal roiling one of America’s oldest Roman Catholic dioceses.