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Article: MOST other countries where the Roman Catholic Church was responsible for child abuse have already dealt with the issue of compensating the victims.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- May 26, 2009
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Catholic Church has paid out billions to victims around world
MOST other countries where the Roman Catholic Church was responsible for child abuse have already dealt with the issue of compensating the victims.
In the United States alone, dioceses have paid out more than $2bn ('1.42bn) to settle legal actions, forcing some dioceses to sell off their entire assets and declare bankruptcy.
An audit into America's 300 plus dioceses was conducted by the College of Criminal Justice at John Jay University in New York and published in 2004.
The John Jay report found a total of 10,667 people accused priests of sexual abuse of children from 1950 ...