US Jesuits agree to school sex abuse pay outs: BBC

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12868046



An order of US Catholic priests has agreed to pay $166.1m (£103.3m) to hundreds of Native Americans sexually abused by priests at its schools.

The former students at Jesuit schools in five states of the north-western US said they were abused from the 1940s through the 1990s.

Under a settlement, the Society of Jesus, Oregon Province, will also apologise to the victims.

The order had argued paying out abuse claims would cause it to go bankrupt.

"It's a day of reckoning and justice," Clarita Vargas, who said she and two sisters were abused by a priest at a Jesuit-run school for Native American children in the state of Washington, told the Associated Press.

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1. K&R- And 5 more going to trial in Philly -

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/03/judge_upholds_all_charges_agai.html

3 priests, a former priest and a teacher-all charges against them sustained...
124 pages of indictments. A Monseigneur is charged with conspiracy for moving these men from place to place to let them escape prosecution...

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