CALIFORNIA
KSRO
Michelle Marques
7/16/2014
In one of the largest settlements nationwide, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa is paying three-point-five million dollars to a teenager who was molested by a Lakeport priest. The settlement was announced late yesterday, and is the final one in a series of sexual abuse cases in the diocese that spanned over twenty years. According to the “Press-Democrat,” the diocese, which serves about 160-thousand Catholics from Petaluma to the Oregon border, has paid about 25-million-dollars to sex abuse victims since 1990.
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