MONTANA
Helena Independent
KATHRYN HAAKE Missoulian
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Hundreds of victims of clergy sex abuse that spanned decades in Montana stand to receive payments totaling about $20 mi… Read more
COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho — Though a federal court has approved a $20 million settlement compensating hundreds of western Montana Catholics molested by nuns and priests, the trauma endured by the victims is far from over, they said Wednesday.
“This isn’t going to stop me from remembering,” said one of the victims following the bankruptcy hearing. “I walk past a church, I remember it. I walk past a priest, I remember it. I see a nun, I remember it.”
The bankruptcy settlement includes a $15 million payment from the Catholic Diocese of Helena and another $4.45 million from the Ursuline Nuns of the Western Province, who ran the Ursuline Academy of St. Ignatius.
Bryan Smith, who represented over 360 victims, said most attended school at the Ursuline Academy or the St. Ignatius Mission in St. Ignatius.
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