NEW ORLEANS — A woman who Big Brother fans might recognize as a contestant on an earlier season of the unscripted television competition has spoken out as a victim of .

Renny Martyn, 71, told her story toward the end of a Tuesday hearing in the federal courthouse where the Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans has been in bankruptcy protection proceedings since 2020 amid the financial fallout of the scandal.

Martyn waited for hours before recounting in court that she had been molested when she was six years old by a priest at the St Mary Magdalen elementary school in Metairie.

She was among 20 or so clergy abuse claimants who testified on Tuesday during a trial over the fairness of a proposal by the archdiocese to pay roughly $230m to hundreds of clerical molestation survivors involved in

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