LOS ANGELES (CA)
KPCC
[links to the documents – Anthony DeMarco, Jeff Anderson & Associates]
Ruxandra Guidi | January 22nd, 2013
While former L.A. Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony tries to address the latest revelations implicating him in coverups of priest sex abuse, angry survivors of abuse say the church still has not suffered enough for its past actions.
Sixty-five-year-old Tony Carone was abused 56 years ago when he was an altar boy. He sighs deeply as he tries to describe coming forward about a taboo he’d kept silent about for years.
“If you talk about it, a lot of people don’t like you, especially Catholics. He says his wife was “disgusted that I would bring it up.”
Things got so bad that Carone separated from his wife two years ago and moved into his parents’ house.
In 2008, Carone received part of the 660 million-dollar settlement from the LA Archdiocese—the largest payout in a sex abuse scandal. Sitting next to him, 70 year-old Udo Strutynski, another abuse survivor, nods when Carone talks about how difficult it was to receive that cash. Strutynski calls the settlement, “blood money”. He says he eventually left the church, and joined the Southern California chapter of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
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