US Catholic diocese agrees to pay $323m to child sexual abuse survivors
Rockville Centre diocese in New York settles with more than 530 victims after proposed deal comes close to failure
A Roman Catholic diocese in Long Island, New York, announced a new bankruptcy settlement on Thursday that would pay more than $323m to about 530 sex abuse survivors who alleged they were abused by priests when they were children.
The diocese of Rockville Centre, which serves about 1.2 million Catholics in Nassau and Suffolk counties, said earlier this year that it did not think a bankruptcy settlement would be possible after abuse survivors rejected the diocese’s previous $200m settlement offer.
US bankruptcy judge Martin Glenn in Manhattan, who is overseeing the case, said the deal represented “enormous progress” after the bankruptcy came “within a hair’s breadth” of failure.
That’s like $1 per person.
Come on man you don't even need to click through to the article.
Im saying they have raped a lot more than 530
This is one specific to Long Island, not the entire Catholic Church.
Cool
That's actually like $600,000 per person
$323,000,000/530
They raped a lot more than 530 kids.
Edit: this situation is fucked so it helps me to laugh but I'll remove my comment because kids were victimized and that sucks
323 000 000 / 523 = 617 590.82
The Catholic Church has fucked a lot more than 523 kids. Stop defending them.
I'm not defending them, religion is a cancer on developed societies. They should be banished or taxed