![]() ![]() "Part of the problem is that the church refuses to divulge the aggregate amounts, and I don't think they ever will," Berry said from his home in New Orleans. Jason Berry, author of a book on church sex abuse called, "Lead Us Not Into Temptation," said the Catholic Church as a whole has probably paid out close to $1 billion in settlements. The Archdiocese of Boston has paid millions of dollars to settle more than a dozen lawsuits against a retired priest. The Diocese of Dallas reached a $23.4 million settlement in 1998 with nine former altar boys who said they were molested by a priest. ![]() ![]() Sex abuse has rocked the Catholic Church in recent years. Neither the diocese nor the plaintiffs would discuss the amount of the settlement, but published reports put the figure at $15 million. See and another victim, 29-year-old Jon Fleetwood of Norwalk, spoke publicly about the cases Friday, one day after the diocese announced a settlement with the 26 plaintiffs charging abuse by its priests. ![]()
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