A judge awarded a $10 million verdict Thursday to a man who was molested by former Lovejoy youth leader Paul D. Gaeta.
The verdict is the result of a Child Victims Act lawsuit filed against Gaeta in March 2020. In the lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court by a Buffalo man using a pseudonym, it alleged that Gaeta sexually abused an 11-year-old boy twice in 1987.
Gaeta was the subject of a 7 News I-Team investigation in 2019 that found the system failed to stop child sexual abuse by Gaeta, who throughout the 1980s and 1990s was the executive director of the Advisory Board for Lovejoy Elderly and Youth.
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