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USA Today
Michael Winter, USA TODAY
The North American branch of the “Irish” Christian Brothers will pay $16.5 million to more than 400 men and women who were sexually or physically abused as children by members of the Roman Catholic order that operates schools and orphanages around the world.
The settlement, announced Thursday in New York, came as the U.S. and Canadian victims agreed to terms of an April 2011 bankruptcy filing by two entities that hold U.S. assets for the Congregation of Christian Brothers, which was founded in Ireland in the early 19th century, The Journal of Dublin reported.
The order will pay half and an insurance carrier the other half. The victims can still sue the schools and dioceses where the alleged abuse occurred.
The religious order, which has operated in the United States since the early 1900s, also agreed to take steps to protect children from sexual abuse.
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