After a four-year court battle, the Diocese of Rockville Centre has reached an agreement with hundreds of survivors of clergy sexual abuse that calls for the church to pay a total of just over $323 million, officials said in federal bankruptcy court Thursday.
While some steps remain to finalize the deal, the lead attorney for the diocese indicated that an agreement had been reached.
“After nearly four years … we do have a global resolution,” Corrine Ball told U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Martin Glenn in Manhattan.
The agreement would benefit more than 500 people who have filed lawsuits against the diocese contending they were sexually abused by clergy when they were children.
WHAT TO KNOW
- The Diocese of Rockville Centre has reached an agreement with hundreds of survivors of clergy sexual abuse that calls for the church to pay just over $323 million.
- Some steps remain to finalize the deal,…