Posted on 09/17/2021 6:19:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
Six California Catholic dioceses, including Fresno which covers Tulare County, settle with 197 victims abused as minors
LOS ANGELES – Six California Catholic dioceses including Fresno, which covers most of the Central Valley, paid $23.9 million to 197 victims abused by clergy members who opted to settle their claims instead of filing lawsuits.
The last claim from victims had been processed by the Independent Compensation Program (ICP) for Victims of Sexual Abuse by Diocesan Priests in California on Sept. 2, according to announcement by the Independent Oversight Committee. The dioceses launched the ICP in September 2019 to provide any victim/survivor of childhood sexual abuse by a priest a non-adversarial resolution, regardless of when the abuse occurred. The six participating dioceses were Fresno, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Together, the participating dioceses comprise more than 10 million Catholics, or about 80 percent of California’s Catholic population.
The announcement did not divulge the number of claims from each of the six dioceses but news reports show the Catholic Diocese of Fresno has been named in multiple lawsuits for having employed sexually abusive priests since 2003, when the California legislature opened a one-year, retroactive window for survivors of child abuse to file civil claims against the perpetrators and the institutions that covered it up. The Diocese of Fresno was one of 16 Catholic Dioceses in the United States which had neglected to publish a list of credibly accused clergy until last month, when it published a list containing information about 37 priests, deacons, or members of a religious order, of which 24 were priests incardinated with the Diocese of Fresno, seven were extern priests (those ordained in one diocese but later worked in another), and six members religious orders, groups who take a vow of poverty and................
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Thats about $120,000 each.
Less attorney’s fee (30% I think).
$23.9 million. Is that all? Cardinal Mahony paid $850 million a few years ago.
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