Anchorage Daily News
August 19, 2011
http://www.adn.com/2011/08/19/2022353/alaska-victims-of-priest-sex-abuse.html
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| COURTNEY BLETHEN / THE SEATTLE TIMES Elsie Boudreau of Anchorage, a victim of past sexual abuse by Jesuits, holds a picture of a friend who was also a victim. Boudreau works as an advocate. |
About 200 mostly Yup'ik victims of child sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials in Western Alaska in the 1960s and '70s have begun receiving checks from the $166 million settlement with Northwest Jesuits, reports KYUK in Bethel. Individual amounts will not be made public, attorney Ken Roosa says. A two-person panel chosen by committee will decide how much of the settlement each victim will receive. "For many of [the victims], it's an opportunity to move on, to try to piece their lives back together," Roosa said. "They will have some compensation, [but] not nearly in any sense what their claims were really worth."
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