I thought they had insurance for stuff like that.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/hark/2010/05/25/scandal-creates-contempt-for-catholic-clergy/39/
Iowa-based Guide One Center for Risk Management, which insures more than 40,000 congregations, also said Catholic churches are not considered a greater risk or charged higher premiums.
“Our claims experience shows this happens evenly across denominations,” said spokeswoman Melanie Stonewall.
However, the largest insurer of the Catholic Church was silent on the subject.
Midwestern Catholic dioceses formed their own Nebraska-based nonprofit insurance group in 1896, now called the Catholic Mutual Group, which is the provider to 111 out of 195 U.S. Catholic dioceses. Catholic Mutual’s counsel, Tim Augustine, declined comment on sexual-abuse claims.
settle abuse lawsuit, Gamecock wrote:
Catholic church to pay $1 million of Parishioner’s tithes to settle abuse lawsuit
There, fixed it.
you are so right....16 years old is a young man not a child.This was simply a homosexual encounter between twn mWILLING participants. I was 16....in high school, played football and was not a homosexual. That having been said, had a priest, or anyone else, made a forceful type advance to me, there would have been more than a minor altercation followed by a trip to the local police department (we didn’t have 911 then).....sorry but if I’m on the jury the so called victim gets NOTHING