If they hadn’t engaged in a systemic cover-up....they wouldn’t be on the hook.
They're not yet "on the hook" because there has been no finding of a "systemic cover-up" in this case.
I have said before, and I will say again: If either of my children had ever been abused by a priest, I would be in prison and the priest would be dead. None of us would take money in exchange for innocence, and those who would are nothing but pimps.
Yeah, you're the one who was criticizing the Church yesterday for spending "hundreds of thousands on that little show. You're the first "catholic" I know of that calls the Mass "a show."
Too bad students can sue public school systems. That would bankrupt every tax payer.