MINNEAPOLIS (MN)
Associated Press via Chicago Tribune
May 31, 2018
By Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has agreed to a $210 million settlement with 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse as part of its plan for bankruptcy reorganization, making it the second-largest U.S. payout in the scandal that rocked the nation’s Roman Catholic Church.
Victims’ attorney Jeff Anderson said the settlement was reached with the victims and the archdiocese and includes accountability measures. The money, a total of $210,290,724, will go into a pot to pay survivors, with the amount for each survivor to be determined.
Anderson said a formal reorganization plan will now be submitted to a bankruptcy judge for approval, and then it will be sent to the victims for a vote. Anderson expected they will readily approve it.
“We changed the playing field,” said Jim Keenan, who was sexually abused as a child by a Twin Cities-area priest. “They have to listen to victims now, and that is huge.”
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