{"id":283,"date":"2007-09-08T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2007-09-08T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T14:08:43","slug":"pervy-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Pervy priests"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Catholic Church in San Diego is to pay 144 clerical sex abuse victims a total of $198m<\/a> (\u20ac143m).<\/p>\n

This is the second biggest settlement of its kind in US history, the largest being the $660m the LA diocese agreed with 500 victims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

San Diego Bishop Robert Brom said he hoped the settlement would give closure:<\/p>\n

The diocese has always been committed to resolving this litigation in a way that fairly compensates these victims of abuse and would still preserve the ongoing ministries and programs of the church.<\/p>\n

We pray that this settlement will bring some closure and healing to the years of suffering experience by these victims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The San Diego diocese filed for bankruptcy protection so it could meet the required compensation. It and four other dioceses filed in the face of civil lawsuits — although a judge had threatened to throw out San Diego’s protection<\/a> if it didn’t agree sums with the victims.<\/p>\n

The settlement comes after four years of talks.<\/p>\n

Victims as quoted by the Associated Press<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“We shouldn’t have had to go through all this,” Betty Schneider, 62, of Temecula, told reporters in front of the federal courthouse. She said she was molested as a 10-year-old member of her church choir.<\/p>\n

“I have grandkids the same age I was, and I hope all this helps kids to be protected better than we were protected,” she said.<\/p>\n

Michael Bang of Atlanta said no settlement could be considered fair.<\/p>\n

“They knew all along that I’d been molested, so to put me through this is unconscionable,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A court will decide exactly how much each person receives, but the average payout will be $1.3m. I really don’t think that’s enough, do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Catholic Church in San Diego is to pay 144 clerical sex abuse victims a total of $198m (\u20ac143m). This is the second biggest settlement of its kind in US history, the largest being the $660m the LA diocese agreed with 500 victims. San Diego Bishop Robert Brom said he hoped the settlement would give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,45,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}