The raw numbers on costs for clergy sex abuse

...from 1950-2006:

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The cumulative financial cost to the U.S. Catholic Church for clerical sexual abuse of minors is now more than $1.5 billion and still climbing.

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Among major settlements yet to come are those in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, which has more than 500 cases pending, and in the Portland Archdiocese in Oregon and the Spokane Diocese in Washington, which have entered federal bankruptcy proceedings because of the number and size of legal claims filed against them for clergy sexual abuse. [more]