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The Guardian

US Catholic diocese agrees to pay $323m to child sexual abuse survivors



Rockville Centre diocese in New York settles with more than 530 victims after proposed deal comes close to failureA Roman Catholic diocese in Long Island, New York, announced a new bankruptcy settlement on Thursday that would pay more than $323m to about 530 sex abuse survivors who alleged they were abused by priests when they were children.The 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 $200m settlement offer. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/new-york-catholic-diocese-rockville-centre

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Publish date : 2024-09-27 02:22:55

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