Archdiocese of L.A. Settles Clergy Abuse Claims for $880M, Raising Total to $1.5B

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 02: Mourners wait in line to attend the public viewing for Archdiocese of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell, part of three days of memorial services, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on March 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. O'Connell, a native of Ireland, was a beloved member of the South L.A. community where he ministered for 27 years and was shot and killed inside his home in Hacienda Heights on February 18. Archbishop José H. Gomez called O'Connell ‘a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant.’ (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse that goes decades back in the past, in what an attorney said was the largest single child sex abuser settlement with a Catholic archdiocese. 

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