MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By TAD VEZNER | tvezner@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
May 11, 2017
A group of sexual abuse survivors engaged in bankruptcy court mediation with the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has overwhelmingly rejected the archdiocese’s proposed bankruptcy reorganization plan, which includes how much it should pay victims.
The archdiocese and a group of survivors — the largest class of the archdiocese’s “creditors” in the bankruptcy court — have submitted opposing plans over how much the archdiocese should offer survivors for abuse that occurred at the hands its clergy.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel ruled in December to allow both plans to move forward to a vote by all creditors.
On Thursday, 94 percent of the survivor group — comprising over 400 members — voted that they preferred their plan over the archdiocese’s.
Kressel could still rule in favor of the archdiocese plan over that vote.
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