ARCHIVAL PHOTO: A ceremony Mass in St. Joseph's Concatery in possible Heights, Brooklyn, NY, September 11, 2016 © Getty Images / Corazon Aguirre/Pacific Press/LightRocke
The Brooklyn Diocese, which has already paid over $100 million to victims, has announced that it will prosecute a "global solution" to resolve the remaining 1,100 kid sexual abuse lawsuits brought against its Catholic priests and staff.
In a letter sent on Thursday, Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan wrote that the diocese would begin "cut costs and set aside crucial resources for victims' compensation".
"The process of collecting these funds involves hard financial choices, but the diocese is obliged to pay fair compensation for all legitimate claims" – he said.
He claimed that the victims' lawyers agreed that making an out-of-court settlement would save money "time, money and emotional stress of victims that would be caused by individual processes".
The settlement is expected to be a immense financial blow, forcing the diocese to sale real property to rise most likely hundreds of millions of dollars, wrote on Thursday "New York Post".
The diocese has already paid over 500 victims of sexual force over $100 million under its Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Programme, which began in 2017.
None of the withdrawals came and will come from parishioners' donations, wrote Brennan.
Brennan's church territory serves 1.3 million Catholics from Brooklyn and Queens, fresh York.
Most lawsuits date back to the 1960s and 1970s.
In December the neighboring fresh York Archdiocese, which oversees the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, agreed to pay $300 million in compensation to the 1,300 people who accused the clergy and staff of the diocese of sexual abuse.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/632387-brooklyn-diocese-child-abuse/
