LAKE CHARLES, La. (NEWS 15) — A Lafayette man who played a crucial role in exposing clerical abuse in the US has died after being beaten in Lake Charles.
Scott Gastal, who testified at age 11 against a priest who abused him, was 50 years old.
Lake Charles police found Gastal with severe head injuries in a motel parking lot on March 2. He died nine days later in a Lafayette hospital…