The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has reached a $210 million settlement to be dispersed among 450 survivors of alleged clergy abuse as part of its bankruptcy reorganization, the Yahoo News website reports today (June 1, 2018).
The archdiocese filed for bankruptcy in 2015, two years after the Minnesota Legislature opened a three-year-window that allowed people who said they had been sexually abused in the past to sue for damages.
That resulted in hundreds of claims being filed against the archdiocese.
"I recognize that the abuse stole so much from you. Your childhood, your safety, your ability to trust and in many cases your faith... The church let you down. I am very sorry," Archbishop Bernard Hebda said in a news conference yesterday outside archdiocese offices.
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