Former AD Abused by Priest Reaches Settlement With Fresno State Over Firing

The former athletic director at Fresno State University, who revealed in 2017 that he had been molested as a child by a Catholic priest and that he suffered emotionally because of that abuse and subsequent revelations, has reached a settlement with the school over his firing.   The terms involving the settlement of the June 2018 lawsuit were not disclosed. At the time of his firing, however, Jim Bartko was nearing the end of his third year of a five-year contract, which paid him $290,000 a