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Northwest Jesuit order agrees to pay $166.1 million to sex abuse victims
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March 27, 2011
Alaska: The Jesuit order in the Northwest has agreed to pay $166.1 million to about 500 abuse victims, including those in Alaska, as part of its bankruptcy settlement. This is one of the largest monetary payouts nationwide in the Roman Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis, and the largest one by a religious order.[1]
Many of the abuses happened to Native American or Alaska Native children, some of which were living in remote Alaska villages when they were abused, others on reservations or in Christian boarding schools into which the federal government had placed them in an attempt to assimilate them into the American culture.[1]
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