Total cost of abuse scandal nears $4B: report [CC]

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The clerical abuse scandal has cost American dioceses and religious orders approximately $3.99 billion since 1950, according to research conducted by The National Catholic Reporter.The …

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My diocese paid out over 1/2 Billion (600million), so I can believe it. 😦
 
Yeah mine had to pay 200 million. I still can’t believe it came to that and what happened to cause it. I wonder sometimes if the raw feeling of it will ever go away, because whenever I think about it, or hear about the abuses that happened, it all still shocks me the same as the first time I heard about the scandals. :blackeye:
 
I have two questions about this report coming from NCR below:

"NCR arrived at its $3.99 billion total by adding to its findings two other sets of figures reported by the bishops:

The cost in 2004-2013 for therapy for victims ($78 million); support for offenders ($142 million); attorneys’ fees ($433 million); child protection efforts, including training, background checks, safe environment coordinators, and other measures ($259 million); and for “other costs,” a designation covering such items as abuse investigations, insurance premiums, emergency assistance for victims and monitoring service for offenders ($47 million).
$96,832,258.22 for similar services for the period 1950-2002 reported in the 2004 report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice."

My questions are:
  1. If the figures are coming from both the Bishops and the John Jay College report, does this mean that only Dioceses are counted? This does not include any monies paid out by religious orders, such as the Jesuits in the US?
  2. And two, the list of categories above include a certain range of expenses. I don’t see child support there. That seems to me to be a large on-going expense for the Church. Would it not be counted here?
 
Mystrx said:
Yeah mine had to pay 200 million. I still can’t believe it came to that and what happened to cause it. I wonder sometimes if the raw feeling of it will ever go away, because whenever I think about it, or hear about the abuses that happened, it all still shocks me the same as the first time I heard about the scandals. :blackeye:
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If your two dioceses alone paid out a combined $800 million wouldn’t that $3.99 billion likely be a lowball estimate?
 
…and the spiritual and psychological costs to abuser and abused. and those alienated by the abuse, is incalculable.

May God heal and save all concerned, may God bless the Church and its religious and laity.
 
PaulineMargaret said:
…and the spiritual and psychological costs to abuser and abused. and those alienated by the abuse, is incalculable.

May God heal and save all concerned, may God bless the Church and its religious and laity.
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Amen. On our knees.
 
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