KANSAS CITY (MO)
Pitch
Bishop Robert Finn, Catholic Diocese ordered to pay $1.1 million for not reporting child sexual abuse
Posted By Karen Dillon on Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:52 PM
The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph continues to roil in its sea of child-sexual-abuse scandals.
In a revelation Monday evening by The New York TImes, an arbitrator ordered the diocese and Bishop Robert Finn to pay $1.1 million to 44 plaintiffs in March because they broke promises to report child-abuse cases to authorities and deal more strictly with predatory priests.
The “breach of contract” case stems from a 2008, $10 million settlement that the Catholic Diocese paid to 47 victims of child sexual abuse that were covered up.
At that time, Bishop Finn agreed to implement several child safety measures to protect children from predatory priests.
But in 2010, the plaintiffs learned that Finn broke his promise by keeping the Rev. Shawn Ratigan in ministry work when he knew that Ratigan was a predator and was hoarding hundreds of photographs of girls.
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