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Minnesota archdiocese offers 132 million to settle sex abuse claims
Source: Reuters
U.S. | Tue Nov 15, 2016 | 9:31pm EST
Minnesota archdiocese offers $132 million to settle sex abuse claims
By Steve Gorman
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has offered to pay $132 million to settle hundreds of child sex abuse claims against its clergy under a revised bankruptcy reorganization plan filed in court on Tuesday.
The archdiocese, one of 15 U.S. Catholic districts and religious orders driven to seek Chapter 11 protection by the church's sex abuse scandal, said its plan would mark the second-largest such bankruptcy settlement of pedophile priest claims in America.
The sum is more than double the $65 million previously offered by the archdiocese and rejected by plaintiffs.
But lawyers representing the bulk of nearly 450 claims at stake in St. Paul-Minneapolis denounced the latest proposal as still far too small and accused church officials of trying to conceal their ability to pay much more.
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Minnesota archdiocese offers $132 million to settle sex abuse claims
By Steve Gorman
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has offered to pay $132 million to settle hundreds of child sex abuse claims against its clergy under a revised bankruptcy reorganization plan filed in court on Tuesday.
The archdiocese, one of 15 U.S. Catholic districts and religious orders driven to seek Chapter 11 protection by the church's sex abuse scandal, said its plan would mark the second-largest such bankruptcy settlement of pedophile priest claims in America.
The sum is more than double the $65 million previously offered by the archdiocese and rejected by plaintiffs.
But lawyers representing the bulk of nearly 450 claims at stake in St. Paul-Minneapolis denounced the latest proposal as still far too small and accused church officials of trying to conceal their ability to pay much more.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-minnesota-priests-abuse-idUSKBN13B06Z