Leslie C. He left the United States for France in , after he pled guilty to having sex with a year-old girl, Samantha Geimer. He worried that the judge in that case would give him a year sentence instead of a shorter-term plea bargain. California opened a three-year window, from , that allowed survivors to file lawsuits starting January 1, The victim, Jane Doe, says Polanski gave her tequila and raped her in , when she was 16 years old.
Both young boys and young girls faced abuse. Settlement negotiations are one of the options for survivors of sexual abuse. It prevents their claim from being litigated at trial, and sometimes holds the abusers and their employers accountable. This post tells you about Catholic California settlements on sexual abuse claims.
The attached Excel document shows you the range of settlements by archdiocese and diocese. The number of settlements reveals the scope of the abuse. California opened the courts in to more abusers, creating a one-year revival window allowing cases that were previously closed to victims by the statutes of limitations. That was a big moment in California law. Yet there were settlements before that. Sex abuse is ongoing, and victims consistently need compensation for their damages, as the early cases of sex abuse by clergymen demonstrate.
In , Msgr. Galindo denied the allegation, but paid. Rudolph Galindo. The award was in the mid-six figures. Two other men also accused Galindo of abuse when they were 9, 10, or 11 years old. The men came forward in Father Robert Foley was the abuser. In early January , the Orange Diocese paid unspecified damages to one victim of Father John Lenihan, a priest in Anaheim, who admitted sexual contact with a year-old girl in Mary Staggs and her husband, Scott, accused Lenihan of molesting her when she was 13 to 18 years old.
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She repressed the memories until she saw a picture of Lenihan in the newspaper in and it reopened her memories. He was 32 when she was 15; he said he was in love with her. The statute of limitations had run on criminal charges. Staggs said the church covered the abuse up. Wilgress met Father Vincent Dwyer when she was 15 and he was Yes, The age is shocking for consent.
