A Chilean appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the Catholic Church should pay c...
SANTIAGO - A Chilean appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the Catholic Church should pay compensation to three victims in a sex abuse case involving former Santiago parish priest Fernando Karadima, potentially opening the floodgates to similar civil lawsuits.
The unanimous decision requires the Church pay 100 million pesos each for “moral damages” to Juan Carlos Cruz, Jose Andres Murillo and James Hamilton. The men accuse Karadima of having sexually abused them decades ago, and the Church of having covered up that abuse.The appeals court’s decision is the first to require Chile’s powerful Roman Catholic Church to pay damages amid an ongoing sex abuse scandal that last year prompted Pope Francis to apologize to the church’s community worldwide.
The scandal last week prompted Pope Francis to accept the resignation of Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, the archbishop of Santiago and the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church in Chile.
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