Rockville Centre diocese in New York settles with more than 530 victims after proposed deal comes close to failure
A Roman Catholic diocese in Long Island, New York, announced a new bankruptcy settlement on Thursday that would pay more than $323m to about 530 sex abuse survivors who alleged they were abused by priests when they were children.
The diocese of Rockville Centre, which serves about 1.2 million Catholics in Nassau and Suffolk counties, said earlier this year that it did not think a bankruptcy settlement would be possible after abuse survivors rejected the diocese’s previous $200m settlement offer.
US bankruptcy judge Martin Glenn in Manhattan, who is overseeing the case, said the deal represented “enormous progress” after the bankruptcy came “within a hair’s breadth” of failure.
Organized religion is a plague.
FYI, Catholics: The Pope wants you to report clerical sexual abuse to the church, not the police.
So that’s where things stand.
530 victims is too many, am I right guys?
Prison time? Hello? Any of these religious tax exempt child rapists going to prison??
I’m Glad that my Republican Governor is trying to put Organizations that Pay out over $350MILLION to their Sex Abuse Survivors in Children’s Schools!
Not even a tithe.
Bleed them dry, the pious hypocrites. Fuck the Catholic Church.
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