MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
By Staff and wire reports MAY 11, 2017
An overwhelming majority of victims of clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis favor a compensation plan submitted by a creditors’ committee, attorneys representing the victims said Thursday.
According to the attorneys, 406 people who have been victims of abuse in the archdiocese, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2015, recently voted on competing compensation plans. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Kressel ruled late last year that the proposals would be voted on by victims, but the final decision on what plan prevails remains up to the court.
Of those voting, 94 percent favored a plan submitted by an abuse survivors’ committee over one submitted by the archdiocese, according to victims’ attorney Jeff Anderson.
The plan from the archdiocese includes a fund of more than $155 million for abuse victims who filed claims in bankruptcy court. Most of that money would come from insurance payments. The survivors’ committee plan calls for the archdiocese to increase its contributions to the victims’ fund to at least $80 million.
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