Montreal:
The Catholic Church is to pay 104 million Canadian {dollars} ($76 million) to lots of of victims of sexual abuse from jap Canada, in response to a press release launched Friday.
In 2020 the Archdiocese of St. John was discovered answerable for one in all Canada’s largest little one intercourse abuse scandals, at Mount Cashel Orphanage, a now-defunct boy’s orphanage in Newfoundland and Labrador province.
The court docket discovered sexual abuse was perpetrated by clergymen and different church officers on the orphanage beginning in 1940 and continued over the course of a number of many years.
A complete of 292 victims will obtain payouts starting from 55,000 to 850,000 Canadian {dollars}, in response to the report seen by AFP.
Accounting agency Ernst & Young has been tapped as a third-party middleman to find out the quantity distributed to every sufferer.
Geoff Budden, one of many attorneys representing the victims, instructed AFP the quantity was in step with “similar compensation from other courts.”
“People didn’t really grasp the scale of the problem and how widespread the abuse was,” he mentioned.
The Archdiocese of St. John declared chapter in 2021, although it has raised 40 million Canadian {dollars} by way of promoting buildings that belonged to it.
However, Budden mentioned he’s optimistic that the victims will obtain the total quantity awarded by the court docket.
“There are still assets that need to be processed, including insurance products,” he mentioned.
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