Settlement of theWeek: $198 Million Clergy Abuse Settlement
Photo (AP) San Diego's Bishop Robert Brom who testified in the Diocese's federal Bankruptcy proceedings.
NPR reports on the most recent clergy abuse settlement here. Excerpt below:
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego said Friday it has agreed to pay $198.1 million to settle 144 claims of sexual abuse by clergy, the second-largest payment by a diocese. The agreement caps more than four years of negotiations in state and federal courts.
I'd be interested to know why NPR pegs 1950 as the year from which to count the total monies paid for sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. In any event, it notes that that that time sexual abuse judgments or settlements have "cost the U.S. church "at least $2.3 billion."
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