New Jersey diocese agrees to pay $87.5 million to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving Catholic church in US
Abuse survivors who filed a claim in the bankruptcy could get $290,000, according to victims' attorneys.
The settlement must still go before a US bankruptcy judge. If approved, the settlement would exceed 2003 nearly $85 million settlement in the clergy abuse scandal in Boston, though it’s less than other settlements in California and Oregon. Details about what the roughly 300 victims have alleged happened to them were not included in the proposed settlement, according to an attorney for some 70 of the victims.
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