In 2007 Justin David Scranton, an English teacher and cross country coach at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, admitted to acting inappropriately toward a student. The school suspended him during an investigation. He was arrested on February 28, 2007 on charges that he took indecent liberties with a female student. In March 2007 a group of protesters, some alleged victims of clerical sexual abuse, stood outside the offices for the Diocese of Raleigh, claiming that Bishop Michael Francis Burbidge refused to meet with them. Later that year the Diocese paid almost $2 million to settle sexual misconduct claims made by thirty-seven people against at least fifteen priests since the 1950s. By September 2020, settlements which were paid by the Diocese of Raleigh in cases surrounding sexual misconduct claims since 1950 totaled $2,717,750.