Tag: Diocese of Brooklyn

• Wednesday, September 19th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Record US$ 27.5 million settlement with New York Catholic church regarding sex abuses

  

  The Catholic church in New York has reached a record US$ 27.5 million settlement with four men who said they were sexually abused as children, attorneys said on Tuesday. The Diocese of Brooklyn, one of the city's boroughs, agreed to make the payments to the four, who were sexually abused between 2003 and 2009 by their religion teacher, their lawyers said.