Catholic Church In New York To Pay $27 Million To Four Child Sex Abuse Victims

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Four men who were sexually abused as children by a teacher at a Catholic church have reached a $27.5 million settlement with the Diocese of Brooklyn.

The victims were repeatedly abused by Angelo Serrano who taught catechism classes and helped organize the religious education programs at St. Lucy’s-St. Patrick’s Church, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

The settlement is one of the largest ever awarded to individual victims of abuse within the church.

Press TV reports: The Diocese of Brooklyn, one of the city’s boroughs, agreed to make the payments to the four, who were sexually abused between 2003 and 2009 by their religion teacher, their lawyers said.

The sum breaks down to $6.87 million for each of the victims, who were between the ages of eight and 12 at the time.

“This is the largest settlement ever involving individual victims,” said attorney Ben Rubinowitz. “We are glad to see the church finally being brought to justice. It continued for months and in certain cases for years.”

Church officials did not immediately comment. But the settlement ends the civil complaint of the four victims, which was to lead to a trial in early 2019, said Rubinowitz.

The complaint was filed in 2012. It came after religion teacher Angelo Serrano — now 67 years old — was arrested in 2009 for molesting a child, for which he pleaded guilty in 2011 and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

According to Rubinowitz, the diocese agreed to pay after trying to distance itself from Serrano, who was employed by the little parish of St Lucy-St Patrick, but not a priest.

A church priest, also targeted by the complaint, admitted to having seen Serrano one day kiss a child on the mouth, but never addressed the abuse, said another of the lawyers Peter Saghir.

“They decided that, rather than risk a trial, that it was time for them to make a payment.”

According to the website BishopAccountability.org, the previous record for an individual compensation was $3.4 million and was paid to the two victims of Matthew Maiello of New York.

News of the settlement came as several US states, worried by a report in August detailing decades of sexual abuse involving more than 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania, are looking into historic abuse cases in their own jurisdictions.

17 Comments

  1. never mind the Catholic Church owns or controls over 80% of the worlds charitable organizations and rakes in billions every single day globally anyway.

    • They do also good work. Or are you working in a slum in India or Africa or South America for nothing but food and a sleeping place?
      Why not blaming the whole mankind for abusing children…it’s not especially and only in the catholic church.

  2. The Catholic Church used to fight these allegations’tooth and nail’ but I’m seeing a trend where they are forking over $$millions and taking a HUGE PR hit at the same time. Are they setting the stage for a declare bankruptcy and reorganization into the “One World Church”?

    • Whatever the Catholic Church do – they will stand forever accused by the Satanic ZioNAZI-controlled Freemason/Illuminati movements, who are marching towards their Godless ZNWO!

      Watching the Frankestein Chronicles series – make us wonder what was the real message!

  3. Since the days of the Knights Templar, their descendents in Satanic ZioNAZI-controlled Freemason/Illuminati movements have tried to destroy the Catholic Church – including by recruiting Pedophiles to invade the Church!

    • See why they hated the Catholic Church and the French Catholic Kings since the 14th. century, at –

      1. THE DARK HISTORY OF THE TEMPLARS

      CHAPTER I

      Bibliotecapleyades,
      and at –

      FROM TEMPLARS TO FREEMASONRY

      CHAPTER II

      Bibliotecapleyades

  4. What’s about circumcision of jewish babies during their first week on earth?
    And the mohel sucking the blood off the wound with his mouth?
    Isn’t that abuse of children?
    I think so!

  5. Tens of thousand s of us children ,have been fighting for compensation for 50 years , they want us to die so they don’t have to pay out .STOP giving money to this sick satanic organization, trust me it does not go to the poor go to Malta, where there are 365 catholic churches , and thousands of people living on the streets

  6. Since the days of the Knights Templar, their descendents in Satanic Zio-controlled Freemason/Illuminati
    movements have tried to destroy the Catholic Church – including by recruiting Pedophiles to invade the Church!

    See why these ZioMASONIC savage animals hated the Catholic Church and the French Catholic Kings since the 14th.
    century, at –

    1. THE DARK HISTORY OF THE TEMPLARS

    CHAPTER I

    Bibliotecapleyades, and at –

    FROM TEMPLARS TO FREEMASONRY

    CHAPTER II

    Bibliotecapleyades

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