189 residents of new Yorkwho have been sexually abused by Catholic priests, has received more than $ 40 million from a new compensation Fund as at 30 November.
This was announced yesterday, December 7, Catholic Archdiocese (Archdiocese) new York. This is the first payments from the Fund of reconciliation and the compensation made in 2016 for the survivors of abuse by priests. The average amount of compensation is about 212 thousand dollars.
«During all these lawsuits, the victims clearly given to understand that they are not just interested in the money, and expect from the Church of reconciliation and healing,» said representatives of the Archdiocese.
As reported by Patch, information about specific cases in the Archdiocese were not provided, but one of the victims, Steven Ryan, Vuotto spoke to reporters. The man said that it had reached an agreement on compensation for the sum of 500 thousand dollars. In adolescence Stephen has experienced sexual abuse by the Reverend Robert Lot’s of Greenwich Village.
The whole compensation process controlled by an Independent Commission, which includes former police Commissioner of new York ray Kelly.
According to representatives of the Archdiocese of new York, they hired former law enforcement officers to conduct «spot checks» in their wards to ensure effective protection of people from sexual violence. In addition, carefully checked the data of all the priests working with children.
