Cost of clergy sex abuse now exceeds $1.5 billion

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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In the first three months of 2006, settlements by four dioceses -- Boston, Covington, Ky., and Davenport and Dubuque in Iowa -- totaled more than $97 million.
Catholic News Service Report

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