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.
Organized religion is a plague.
to be a religion it should be organized
No. People can believe just fine without an abusive institution to demand that they do it in specific ways.
Yes they can but it is simply faith. Religion is institution
Nope. Religion is a type of faith. Not all religious people belong to any organized church.
Church is the institution. Religious faith is a separate thing often but not always represented by one.
Your opinion,not reality, ok
This you?
FYI, Catholics: The Pope wants you to report clerical sexual abuse to the church, not the police.
So that's where things stand.
530 victims is too many, am I right guys?
Way more than it should be, but feels suspiciously low given the scale of their operation and the problem.
Agreed, I was prepared for the amount to be large enough that it came out to like $10 a person.
Prison time? Hello? Any of these religious tax exempt child rapists going to prison??
I'm Glad that my Republican Governor is trying to put Organizations that Pay out over $350MILLION to their Sex Abuse Survivors in Children's Schools!
Not even a tithe.
Bleed them dry, the pious hypocrites. Fuck the Catholic Church.
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