Victim says Aymond could've stopped sex abuse at New Orleans seminary in 1980s

Not a good look for the Archbishop of New Orleans

The Advocate

A man recently accepted a $150,000 settlement from the Archdiocese of New Orleans after claiming a veteran priest repeatedly molested him as a teenager in the mid-1980s at Notre Dame Seminary, when now-Archbishop Gregory Aymond held a high-ranking post there.

The man, Kevin Michael Bourgeois, said that he often encountered Aymond as priest Carl Davidson, then in his mid-40s, led the high schooler into booze-soaked sleepovers at the seminary. That’s where the abuse unfolded.

Aymond — who acknowledged remembering Bourgeois as a St. John Vianney student — said Davidson’s sleepovers were “totally inappropriate” and that “the whole scenario was wrong.” But he said he didn’t live in the same building as Davidson, which would have made it difficult for him to follow Davidson’s comings and goings.