KANSAS CITY (MO)
Fars News Agency (Iran)
TEHRAN (FNA)- The American Catholic Diocese of Kansas City, St. Joseph, has agreed to pay $9.95 million to settle all its sex scandals in a bid to close a long-running file, media reports said.
The settlement resolves 30 pending cases filed between 2010 and earlier this year alleging abuse by priests 20 or more years ago, the diocese said in a statement, Reuters reported.
A large part of the settlement will be covered by insurers, with the diocese paying the rest, the statement said.
The Kansas City diocese in 2008 settled a lawsuit for $10 million brought by 47 plaintiffs who claimed they were repeatedly sexually abused by priests when they were children.
In 2012, one of its priests pled guilty to producing child pornography, and the diocese’s current leader, Bishop Robert Finn, was convicted of failing to report him to police.
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