Roman Catholic diocese in Long Island, New York received court approval on Wednesday for a bankruptcy settlement that will pay more than $320 million to 600 sex abuse survivors who have said they were abused by priests when they were children.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn confirmed Rockville Centre Diocese’s bankruptcy plan at a court hearing in Manhattan, saying that the settlement was a “remarkable” achievement after the diocese spent four difficult years in bankruptcy.
“I understand that money alone cannot make up for the trauma that so many have lived with for so many years,” Glenn said. “I hope that confirming the plan today will speed the process of providing survivors with compensation and will help put this terrible history behind them so that the church can carry on its important mission without the distraction of the bankruptcy process.”
The diocese serves about 1.2 million Catholics in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and it is the 8th-largest diocese in the U.S.
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