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Competing plans to compensate priest abuse victims move forward in court

December 9, 2016 By Bill Werner

Two proposals for compensating survivors of priest sex abuse remain in play after a Wednesday hearing in federal court. Attorney Charles Rogers says the plan submitted by the Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis earmarks 155 million dollars or more for a victims’ fund.  He says, “We have the parameters of a plan that we believe is eminently workable. It is now for the court to determine what plan is voted on and how we proceed.”  But victims’ attorney Mike Finnegan calls it “a scheme by the archdiocese to contribute less than one percent of their assets.”  He says, “They are only putting in about 16 million dollars of their own money. The rest comes from insurance money that they have.”  Finnegan says the archdiocese has 1.3 billion dollars in assets and well over a billion dollars of insurance money that’s potentially available to compensate victims of priest sex abuse.

 

 

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