MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Martin Moylan May 11, 2017
In a landslide vote, sex abuse survivors have rejected a reorganization and compensation plan from the bankrupt Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The church was offering at least $155 million. But 94 percent of abuse victims voting endorsed a competing plan that they expect would treat them more justly and extract much more money from the church and its insurers.
“The vote speaks volumes to the unity and perseverance of victims and survivors,” said James Keenan, an abuse survivor and chair of the creditors’ committee. “We’re going to stand together and see this thing through to the end. And we’re going to do this thing right.
The creditors’ committee believes there could be more than $1 billion available from insurers. But insurers would no doubt fight claims tenaciously. They can, for instance, argue they can’t be on the hook for abuse that the church knew about but failed to stop.
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