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	US Catholic Churches Paid out $1 Billion for Sex Abuse since 1950 Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Priests Has Cost the US Church More Than $1 Billion (Euro830 Million) since 1950 Associated Press, carried in Jamaica Observer February 3, 2006 http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20060202T220000-0500_97865_OBS_US_CATHOLIC_CHURCHES_PAID_OUT____BILLION_FOR_SEX_ABUSE_SINCE_____.asp Here are some of the largest known payouts to victims since the crisis intensified in 2002 with revelations that a molester priest was moved among parishes in the Boston Archdiocese without alerting parents or police: . Diocese of Orange, California, 2004, $100 million (euro82.52 million) for 90 abuse claims. . Archdiocese of Boston, 2003, $85 million (euro70.14 million) for 552 claims. . Diocese of Oakland, California, 2005, $56 million (euro46.21 million) to 56 people. . Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky, 2003, $25.7 million (euro21.21 million) to 243 victims. . Diocese of Tucson, Arizona, 2005, agrees to fund a settlement trust worth about $22 million (euro18.15 million) for more than 50 victims as part of a plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection. . Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, 2002, $13.5 million (euro11.14 million) to settle 36 claims.
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