Kc Diocese Must Pay $1.1m in Abuse Deal Breach

Kansas City Business Journal
August 15, 2014

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The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph must pay a $1.1 million breach-of-contract award for violating a settlement with victims of priest sexual abuse as an arbitrator ordered, the Jefferson City News Tribune reports.

Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Bryan Round upheld the arbitrator’s finding that the diocese failed to abide by “the terms of the non-monetary commitments” in the 2008 settlement, the report says.

A lawsuit filed to enforce the terms of the settlement accused the diocese of violating one such commitment when it waited more than a year to report suspected abuse by priest Shawn Ratigan and sat on evidence of possible child pornography for months, the report says.