Mitchell Garabedian, A Champion for human rights
The Brave "Garabedian" that took on the Catholic Church and helped over 100 victims of sexual abuse.
MITCHELL GARABEDIAN
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Mitchell Garabedian is a Boston Massachusetts attorney specializing in sexual abuse cases.1 He has become an internationally recognized advocate on the topic.2 He began practicing law in 1979 as a lawyer who represented individuals including victims of injury cases.3 Attorney Garabedian became widely known for his representation of victims or survivors of Roman Catholic Church clergy sexual abuse in the 1990’s and 2000’s.4 Over his career he has so far represented more than 600 victims or survivors of clergy sexual abuse.5 On the A&E TV program Sins of a Priest: The John J. Geoghan Story, Mitchell Garabedian’s efforts to expose the secrets of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston were
1 Stern, Gary, Salesians Settle Sex-Abuse Claim With 3 Men,(8/9/2009), LoHud.com, http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009908090331; Berfanger, Rebecca J., Lawyer of the Year 2002 Mitchell Garabedian. Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly (2002); Aucoin, Don. Victims of alleged sexual abuse by priests turn to Mitchell Garabedian, The Boston Globe Spotlight Investigation: Abuse in the Catholic Church, 2002 Globe Newspaper Company (2/14/2002), http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories/021402_garabedian.htm.
2 How America's Catholic Church Crucified Itself, The Sunday Times, Times Online, London, Englaond (3/13/2005) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article422790.ece?print=yes&randnum= 1151003209000; Paedophile Priest Killed In Jail, BBC News (8/24/2003) http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/3177021.stm;Owen, Richard, Sex-Scandal Cardinal Set For Senior Vatican Job, The Times, London (12/16/2002); Boston church offers $US55m abuse settlement, Australian Broadcasting Corp. News (8/9/2003); A Series of Sexual Abuse Cases, 2000 Law-Breaking Priests, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan (4/24/2002); Church in Court, Breakfast, Australian Broadcasting Corp. (12/30/2002); La Archidiócesis de Boston Pagará 10 Millones de Dólares a 86 Víctimas de un Cura Pederasta, Reuters, El Mundo, Madrid, Spain (9/4/2002) http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2002/09/04/sociedad/1031110794. html.
3 Aucoin, Don. Victims of alleged sexual abuse by priests turn to Mitchell Garabedian, The Boston Globe Spotlight Investigation: Abuse in the Catholic Church, 2002 Globe Newspaper Co. (2/14/2002), http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories/021402_garabedian.htm.
4 Face the Nation (CBS 4/28/2002), http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/29/ftn/ main507501.shtml; Nightline: Sins of the Fathers (ABC 3/14/2002), http://tvnews.vanderbilt. edu/siteindex/2002-Specials/special-2002-03-14-ABC-1.html; Aucoin, Don. Victims of alleged sexual abuse by priests turn to Mitchell Garabedian, The Boston Globe Spotlight Investigation: Abuse in the Catholic Church, 2002 Globe Newspaper Co. (2/14/2002), http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/ abuse/stories/021402_garabedian.htm.
5Stern, Gary, Salesians Settle Sex-Abuse Claim With 3 Men,(8/9/2009), LoHud.com, http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009908090331.
