Seattle Archdiocese to pay $12 million to settle child sex abuse claims: lawyer
Source: Reuters
By Eric M. Johnson
SEATTLE (Reuters) The Archdiocese of Seattle has agreed to pay about $12.125 million to 30 men who alleged they were sexually abused as children and teens at two Seattle-area schools from the 1950s until 1984, their attorney said.
The men alleged in lawsuits filed in King County Superior Court that the Catholic district failed to shield them from known abusers at Seattles ODea High School and at Briscoe Memorial School, in nearby Kent, plaintiffs attorney Michael Pfau said in an interview.
The schools were operated jointly by the Christian Brothers of Ireland religious order and the Archdiocese of Seattle, which owned both schools, he said. The settlement agreement, which had been negotiated over the past year, was announced on Tuesday.
The agreement comes weeks after Pope Francis said the Roman Catholic Church had to take a stronger stand on a sexual abuse crisis that has disgraced it for more than two decades.
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pnwmom
(108,987 posts)that this ended when it did. He was the one who set up an outside board to review these claims. He was the first bishop in the country to do so.
He also was joining in protests against nuclear weapons and supporting gay people and women in the Church. I'll always miss him.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)in this country alone. How many of these pedophiles are even in jail?
neffernin
(275 posts)Welcome to the good ol USA