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The Superior Court decision backs an earlier ruling by a Philadelphia judge who dismissed the lawsuits filed against the archdiocese by Francis Finnegan of Delaware County and Philip Gaughan of Delaware. Both men had filed their complaints independently in March 2011, and appealed the initial dismissals to the state court in 2014.
On August 14, 2020, it was revealed that there were now 150 lawsuits filed against all eight Pennsylvania Catholic Dioceses. [105] However, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Diocese of Allentown and Diocese of Scranton had received the bulk of these lawsuits. [105]
In July 2003 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville paid $25.7 million to "settle child sexual-abuse allegations made in 240 lawsuits naming 34 priests and other church workers." [8] In 2003, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston settled a large case for $85 million with 552 alleged victims. [19]
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will pay $3.5 million to settle a civil case alleging a now-deceased priest sexually assaulted a teenage boy nearly two decades ago, and church officials knew of ...
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The Milwaukee archdiocese has already paid out over $29 million to settle 200 cases over the last 20 years. They said that these additional cases would cause hefty legal fees that the archdiocese could not afford. The archdiocese has assets of about $98.4 million, but $90 million of that is restricted for specific uses. [41]
BALTIMORE — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore’s plan to pay sex abuse victims through bankruptcy became more clear Tuesday, with lawyers for the church saying parishes and schools ...
It was also acknowledged that the archdiocese was aware of 36 sex abuse cases since the 1950s, which involved 26 children. [265] The Archdiocese of Vancouver was the first among Canada's 60 Catholic dioceses to make this information public. [265] In August 2020, a new sex abuse lawsuit was filed against the Archdiocese of Vancouver. [266]