An OSV News article reporting that twenty years of United States Catholic diocesan and eparchial clergy abuse settlement payouts, tracked through the USCCB's annual Charter compliance reports, reached roughly 5.59 billion dollars by the end of 2024, following an 880 million dollar Archdiocese of Los Angeles settlement and a 323 million dollar Diocese of Rockville Centre settlement that year.
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Tier 2: OSV News (formerly Our Sunday Visitor), a national Catholic news service, read directly, reporting an aggregated twenty-year total of United States Catholic diocesan and eparchial clergy abuse settlement payouts drawn from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' own annual Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People compliance reports, which are compiled with survey research from Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate and audit procedures from StoneBridge Business Partners. No individual byline was given in the article as read. A national religious news service relaying an aggregated compliance-report total, not a single audited balance sheet. Citation
PublisherOSV News
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://www.osvnews.com/20-years-of-abuse-settlements-for-us-catholic-dioceses-exceeds-5-billion-total/
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This source names Los Angeles directly: "an 880 million dollar Archdiocese of Los Angeles settlement and a 323 million dollar Diocese of Rockville Centre settlement that year."
Source 20 Years of Abuse Settlements for US Catholic Dioceses Exceeds $5 Billion Total (OSV News)
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- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Denominations, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
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