HARTFORD (CT)
Hartford Courant
January 22, 2019
By Dave Altimari
The Archdiocese of Hartford is scheduled to reveal Tuesday that it has paid $50.6 million to settle more than 140 priest sexual abuse claims made mostly by minors, including 20 credible allegations against one priest, according to information shared Monday with area clergy.
The archdiocese also will announce that it is hiring former state Judge Antonio Robaina to do an independent review of church records from 1953, when the archdiocese was formed, until now. Church officials, including Archbishop Leonard Blair, met with priests at the St. Thomas Seminary to share details of the report.
There will be 47 priests named who have either had civil lawsuits filed against them or have been the subject of claims that archdiocese officials deemed credible. Included are six priests from other dioceses who allegedly abused a child while assigned to Hartford and six priests from other religious orders.
Diocese spokeswoman Maria Zone declined to comment on what would be revealed Tuesday.
Priests who gathered Monday were informed that slightly more than half of the $50.6 million was paid by the church’s insurance carrier and that the rest came from the general fund. Of the 142 claims that were settled, about 84 percent involved allegations against nine priests.
One priest had 20 credible abuse claims against him that were settled for $10.7 million.
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