Canadian archdiocese to pay $104M to child sex abuse victims
The Catholic Church is to pay 104 million Canadian dollars ($76 million) to hundreds of victims of sexual abuse from eastern Canada, according to a statement released Friday.
The court found sexual abuse was perpetrated by priests and other church officials at the orphanage starting in 1940 and continued over the course of several decades.
A total of 292 victims will receive payouts ranging from 55,000 to 850,000 Canadian dollars.
Geoff Budden, one of the attorneys representing the victims, told AFP the amount was in line with “similar compensation from other courts.”
“People didn’t really grasp the scale of the problem and how widespread the abuse was,” he said.
https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/58266...se-victims
The Catholic Church is to pay 104 million Canadian dollars ($76 million) to hundreds of victims of sexual abuse from eastern Canada, according to a statement released Friday.
The court found sexual abuse was perpetrated by priests and other church officials at the orphanage starting in 1940 and continued over the course of several decades.
A total of 292 victims will receive payouts ranging from 55,000 to 850,000 Canadian dollars.
Geoff Budden, one of the attorneys representing the victims, told AFP the amount was in line with “similar compensation from other courts.”
“People didn’t really grasp the scale of the problem and how widespread the abuse was,” he said.
https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/58266...se-victims
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
