The Catholic Church in Canada says it will pay a total of CAD$104 million (about €70 million) in damages to hundreds of victims of past sex crimes.
According to church information available to the AFP news agency, a total of 292 affected people from the Archdiocese of St. John in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador will each receive compensation of between 55,000 and 850,000 Canadian dollars.
One of the victims’ lawyers said the amount was equal to “similar damages awarded in other courts.” People “didn’t really understand the scale of the problem and how widespread the abuse was.” He said he was optimistic that victims would receive the full amount awarded by the court.
Decades of suffering in an orphanage
In 2020, the Archdiocese of St. John was blamed for one of Canada’s largest sexual abuse scandals. A court heard that decades of abuse by priests and other church officials took place at Mount Cashel Orphanage, a now-defunct orphanage for boys in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Source: Krone
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