Archdiocese of Los Angeles announces nearly $1 billion clergy abuse settlement
LOS ANGELES (CA)
Catholic News Agency - EWTN [Denver CO]
October 17, 2024
By Daniel Payne
Read original articleThe Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced a massive $880 million clergy abuse settlement on Wednesday, a record payout that Archbishop José Gomez expressed hope would “provide some measure of healing” for abuse victims.
Lawyers for both victims and the archdiocese said in a joint press release that the near-$1 billion settlement would address 1,353 childhood sexual abuse claims filed against the California archbishopric.
The mediation process, conducted under retired California Judge Daniel Buckley, took roughly a year.
Abuse survivors filed the claims against the archdiocese following the state’s enactment of Assembly Bill 218, which offered victims a three-year window to file civil abuse claims that had otherwise gone beyond the statute of limitations.
Gomez in a statement on Wednesday said the settlement — the largest ever for a U.S. diocese or archdiocese — would “provide just compensation to the survivor-victims of these past abuses.”
It would also allow…
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