Report: Diocese still settling abuse cases
Providence, Rhode Island --
New priest abuse cases at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence in Rhode Island have surfaced since the big settlement in 2002, says the Providence Journal.
The 2002 settlement was for $14.3-million settlement with some three dozen people.
Since then, the diocese has quietly reached out-of-court settlements on 50 sexual-abuse claims for a total of $2 million, the newspaper reported.
The diocese has set up a formal process to hear new claims, validate them, and offer payments of $10,000 to $50,000, the report said quoting Monsignor Paul D. Theroux, the bishop's chief of staff.
"It certainly, for me, is the most personally draining experience I've ever had in my life," said Theroux.
The stream of new claims suggests that abuse by priests in Rhode Island may have been more widespread than was indicated by the 2002 settlement, the report said.
At least 90 people in the diocese allege they were abused, the report said. None of accused priests are in ministry anymore, the monsignor said.
Read the article at United Press International Dated July 18, 2005
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New priest abuse cases at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence in Rhode Island have surfaced since the big settlement in 2002, says the Providence Journal.
The 2002 settlement was for $14.3-million settlement with some three dozen people.
Since then, the diocese has quietly reached out-of-court settlements on 50 sexual-abuse claims for a total of $2 million, the newspaper reported.
The diocese has set up a formal process to hear new claims, validate them, and offer payments of $10,000 to $50,000, the report said quoting Monsignor Paul D. Theroux, the bishop's chief of staff.
"It certainly, for me, is the most personally draining experience I've ever had in my life," said Theroux.
The stream of new claims suggests that abuse by priests in Rhode Island may have been more widespread than was indicated by the 2002 settlement, the report said.
At least 90 people in the diocese allege they were abused, the report said. None of accused priests are in ministry anymore, the monsignor said.
Read the article at United Press International Dated July 18, 2005
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