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Today — 8 April 2025Main stream

A $4 Billion Sex Abuse Settlement in L.A., After Childhoods of ‘Pure Hell’

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Shawn Hubler and Shaila Dewan
7 April 2025 at 22:57
Thousands of plaintiffs, once children in Los Angeles County’s juvenile detention and foster care systems, are part of a record-breaking payout.

© Mark Abramson for The New York Times

Before yesterdayMain stream

Los Angeles County Plans to Pay $4 Billion to Settle Sex Abuse Claims

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Shawn Hubler
5 April 2025 at 07:33
The settlement, which still needs formal approval, covers more than 6,800 claims of abuse, some of which date back to 1959.

© Dean Musgrove/The Orange County Register, via Associated Press

Ben Crump, a lawyer, center, at a news conference in 2022 with survivors of sexual abuse that occurred at MacLaren Hall in Los Angeles.

Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Defrocked Over Sex Abuse, Dies at 94

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Robert D. McFadden
5 April 2025 at 12:43
He rose in the Roman Catholic Church before allegations of abusing minors and seminarians and an investigation led Pope Francis to strip him of his priesthood.

© Andrew Medichini/Associated Press

Theodore E. McCarrick in Rome in 2013. An investigation in 2018 concluded that he had molested a teenage altar server in 1971 and 1972, while he was a monsignor in New York City.
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