The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached an agreement in principle worth $880 million to compensate more than a thousand decades-old claims of childhood sexual abuse.
Announced Wednesday in a joint statement from archdiocesan counsel and a committee of plaintiffs’ lawyers, the global settlement caps a yearlong mediation process that followed California’s three-year revival of civil claims of past sexual abuse involving minors.
The 1,353 claims to be compensated by the agreement are based on allegations against priests, other clergy, women religious and lay people from the archdiocese, along with religious order priests and clergy from other dioceses who were serving in the archdiocese.