New York Catholic diocese reaches $323 mln sex abuse settlement

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Source: Reuters

September 26, 2024 7:20 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago


NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic diocese in Long Island, New York announced a new bankruptcy settlement on Thursday that would pay more than $323 million to about 530 sex abuse survivors who alleged they were abused by priests when they were children.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, which serves about 1.2 million Catholics in Nassau and Suffolk counties, said earlier this year that it did not think a bankruptcy settlement would be possible, after abuse survivors rejected the diocese’s previous $200 million settlement offer. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn in Manhattan, who is overseeing the case, said the deal represented "enormous progress" after the bankruptcy came "within a hair's breadth" of failure.

Rockville Centre will contribute $234.8 million to a settlement fund, with four insurers contributing $85.3 million. The settlement will also receive funding from another insurer that is being liquidated in a separate insolvency proceeding and from attorneys representing abuse survivors.

Diocese spokesman Rev. Eric Fasano said the settlement would ensure "the equitable compensation of survivors of abuse while allowing the Church to continue her essential mission." The diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York in October 2020, citing the cost of lawsuits filed by childhood victims of clergy sexual abuse.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-catholic-diocese-reaches-323-mln-sex-abuse-settlement-2024-09-26/

[twodogsbarking]

1. Will it stop?

Nope.

[msfiddlestix]

2. This is absolutely insane. AND there's One and half MILLION Catholics within that diocese who remain faithful followers?

These abusers need to be in PRISON , the churches need to be legally abolished in this country.

[purr-rat beauty]

3. cults are us

I just cannot think how a devout Catholic could tolerate this?

and if so, what does it say about them?

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

4. I left

Won't go back. Francis latest pronouncement on Kamala and 'lesser of two evils' didn't help change my mind much. You'd think he'd make a stand but he apparently doesn't want to alienate catholics here.

[sarisataka]

5. How do devout Catholics "tolerate" this?

Both President Biden and former Speaker Pelosi are called devout Catholics, what does it say about them?

[FakeNoose]

6. I was raised Catholic and I still go to church once or twice per year

I don't consider myself "devout" but I also don't believe I'll ever join another church either. The failures and flaws of the Catholic church are well-known nowadays, but they spent a lot of years covering things up.

My personal opinion is that they SHOULD have allowed women into the priesthood, especially after World War II. Most of these cases of sexual abuse by priests would have never happened. Or if they happened, they would have been dealt with forthrightly and urgently, instead of being swept under the table.

Most of the Catholic priests are good men, but the bad ones were tolerated and enabled for way too long.