'No kid should be residing in the rectory': Child protection part of clergy abuse settlement
Clergy sex abuse survivor Leo Tudela told the bankruptcy court the settlement deal with the Archdiocese of Agaña will have more protection for children, following a dark chapter in the local Catholic Church’s history of child sexual abuse from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archdiocese attorney Ford Elsaesser said the settlement is in the range of “at least $34 million to $45 million,” depending on the actual sum that the sale of archdiocese properties would bring in.
The court-filed joint disclosure statement also indicated that between the various forms of funding for the plan, tort claimants will receive the total sum of between $37 million and $101 million.
“No kid should be residing in the rectory,” Tudela, 79, said in court as he cited examples of specific, easy-to-understand items in the Child Protection Protocols that abuse survivors and the archdiocese have been drafting as part of the settlement.
Several of Guam’s 270-plus clergy sex abuse claims alleged priests abused minors in the priest’s residence or the rectory. Many of the children were residing in the rectory as well.
Tudela said the protocols also include not allowing any child to ride in a vehicle alone with a priest or another clergy member.
In several Guam clergy sex abuse claims, priests abused children in vehicles or drove to places where they abused them.
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Clergy sex abuse survivor Leo Tudela told the bankruptcy court the settlement deal with the Archdiocese of Agaña will have more protection for children, following a dark chapter in the local Catholic Church’s history of child sexual abuse from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archdiocese attorney Ford Elsaesser said the settlement is in the range of “at least $34 million to $45 million,” depending on the actual sum that the sale of archdiocese properties would bring in.
The court-filed joint disclosure statement also indicated that between the various forms of funding for the plan, tort claimants will receive the total sum of between $37 million and $101 million.
“No kid should be residing in the rectory,” Tudela, 79, said in court as he cited examples of specific, easy-to-understand items in the Child Protection Protocols that abuse survivors and the archdiocese have been drafting as part of the settlement.
Several of Guam’s 270-plus clergy sex abuse claims alleged priests abused minors in the priest’s residence or the rectory. Many of the children were residing in the rectory as well.
Tudela said the protocols also include not allowing any child to ride in a vehicle alone with a priest or another clergy member.
In several Guam clergy sex abuse claims, priests abused children in vehicles or drove to places where they abused them.
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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"
