Latest Catholic Church Priest Sexual Abuse Settlements

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by

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As news outlets have been reporting over the past few weeks, the dioceses of the Catholic church in Seattle, Louisville and Kansas City have reached settlements to resolve sexual abuse lawsuits filed by parishioners or former parishioners. These are of course just the latest in a serious of ongoing settlements over alleged sexual abuse of young people by Catholic priests.

The Seattle Archdiocese has announced a settlement of $380,000 with

two unnamed plaintiffs who claim they were molested by two priests, now deceased. The settlement includes $270,000 to one man whose initials were given as M.P., $110,000 to another, initialed J.P.

The Kansas City diocese paid a $225,000 settlement to Frank Scheuring from Independence, Missouri, who alleged that a priest began abusing him when he disclosed in confessional that a neighbor was abusing him.

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