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Crookston Diocese paying $5M to settle priest sex abuse claims

July 17, 2019 By Bill Werner

The Catholic Diocese of Crookston will pay five million dollars to 15 survivors of child sex abuse by priests, under a settlement announced Wednesday. A Minneapolis law firm says the names of the priests will also be disclosed. The plaintiffs’ attorneys add with this settlement, the Crookston Diocese avoids Chapter 11 bankruptcy — a route other Minnesota dioceses took after facing dozens of clergy sex abuse lawsuits.

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