Sex abuse costs LA archdiocese more than $740million

Sex abuse costs LA archdiocese more than $740million

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Sex abuse litigation and settlements have cost Los Angeles Archdiocese more than US$740 during the past decade.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the latest settlement was for US$13million for 17 victims of alleged abuse by Fr Nicholas Aguilar-Riviera in the 1980s.

Attorneys for the victims allege Cardinal Roger Mahoney and an aide “actively thwarted” and “misled” police.

Officials say this is the last of the archdiocese’s pending molestation lawsuits.

The payouts to more than 500 victims have financially devastated the archdiocese.

It has sold off real estate, taken out a US$175 million loan and used some of its US$115 million set aside for cemetery maintenance to pay settlements.

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