Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles agrees to pay $880M to clergy sexual abuse survivors

• The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to wage $880 cardinal to victims of clergy intersexual maltreatment dating backmost decades.
• Attorney Morgan Stewart, who led the negotiations, said successful a connection that the colony is the largest azygous kid enactment maltreatment colony with a Catholic archdiocese.
• The archdiocese has paid $740 cardinal to victims successful the past, truthful this colony would enactment the full payout astatine much than $1.5 billion, the Los Angeles Times said.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to wage $880 cardinal to victims of clergy intersexual maltreatment dating backmost decades, successful what an lawyer said was the largest azygous kid enactment maltreatment colony with a Catholic archdiocese, it was announced Wednesday.

After the announcement of the statement successful principle, Archbishop José H. Gomez said successful a statement, "I americium atrocious for each 1 of these incidents, from the bottommost of my heart."

"My anticipation is that this colony volition supply immoderate measurement of healing for what these men and women person suffered," the archbishop added. "I judge that we person travel to a solution of these claims that volition supply conscionable compensation to the survivor-victims of these past abuses."

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Attorneys for 1,353 radical who allege that they suffered horrific maltreatment astatine the hands of section Catholic priests reached the colony aft months of negotiations with the archdiocese, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The statement caps a quarter-century of litigation against the astir populous archdiocese successful the United States.

People be a memorial work extracurricular the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels successful Los Angeles connected Jan. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes,File)

Attorneys successful the Plaintiffs’ Liaison Committee said successful a associated statement, "While determination is nary magnitude of wealth that tin regenerate what was taken from these 1,353 brave individuals who person suffered successful soundlessness for decades, determination is justness successful accountability."

Under the settlement, the plaintiffs volition prosecute successful a process — that volition not impact the archdiocese — to allocate the colony magnitude among the participants.

The archdiocese has antecedently paid $740 cardinal to victims successful assorted settlements and had pledged to better support its religion members, truthful this colony would enactment the full payout astatine much than $1.5 billion, the Times said.

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Attorney Morgan Stewart, who led the negotiations, said successful a connection that the colony is the largest azygous child enactment maltreatment settlement with a Catholic archdiocese.

"These survivors person suffered for decades successful the aftermath of the abuse. Dozens of the survivors person died. They are aging, and galore of those with cognition of the maltreatment wrong the religion are too. It was clip to get this resolved," Stewart told the Times.

The colony volition beryllium funded by archdiocese investments, accumulated reserves, slope financing, and different assets. According to the archdiocese, definite spiritual orders and others named successful the litigation volition besides screen immoderate of the outgo of the settlement, the Times said.