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New York Archdiocese offers $1b to settle sex abuse claims
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The archdiocese would also have to publicly disclose information about the offenders and other “secret documents” that would help “better protect kids in the future,” two of the plaintiffs’ lawyers said.
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Jeffery C. Mays and Maya King
The Archdiocese of New York has proposed paying US$800 million (S$1.02 billion) to settle claims from the 1,300 people who say they were sexually abused as minors by priests and lay staff, according to lawyers representing 300 accusers.
The archdiocese would pay each accuser at least US$250,000, according to a letter describing the potential settlement that was sent on April 27 to the accusers by two of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, Mr Jeff Anderson and Ms Trusha Goffe.
