Kamehameha Schools agrees to pay $80M to abuse victims

HONOLULU (AP) — A private school system in Honolulu has agreed to pay $80 million to the victims of a doctor accused of sexually abusing students and other patients for decades.

Kamehameha Schools also has agreed to create new safeguards and methods to report abuse in the tentative settlement agreement reached with 32 plaintiffs.

Dozens of victims of Robert Browne filed lawsuits against the school, St. Francis Medical Center and Browne’s estate, claiming negligence and other charges for not protecting them from abuse.

Browne, who was the chief of psychiatry at St. Francis Hospital, worked as a consultant for the school and treated hundreds of Kamehameha students from the late 1950s into the early 1980s. He died in 1991.

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