MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By TORY COONEY | vcooney@pioneerpress.com
August 23, 2016
A group of sexual abuse victims who suffered at the hands of clergy in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis have filed a counter plan for the proposed settlement.
The archdiocese’s plan, submitted to bankruptcy court in May, is “grossly underfunded and grossly deficient,” said attorney Jeff Anderson during a press conference Tuesday. Anderson is a St. Paul attorney representing hundreds of people claiming sexual abuse by priests.
The plan submitted by the survivors, as the Creditors’ Committee in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, would require the archdiocese to pay $80 million to victims instead of the $16 million it proposed.
“The reality is that what the Archdiocese did (in submitting its plan) … was a scam,” Anderson said. He also claimed that the archdiocese has vastly under-reported its true ability to pay and has sheltered funds.
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