US EditionSpain: Catholic Church Signs Deal on Sexual Abuse Compensation
The agreement creates a mixed system for symbolic, psychological, and economic reparations, with a one-year claims window and tax-free payments, covering cases barred by statute or perpetrator death.
- Spain's Roman Catholic Church has reached an agreement with the government to compensate victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy.
- The deal means the government will manage possible compensation in cases where legal avenues are no longer available due to statute of limitations.
- A study estimated 1.1% of Spain's population, around 440,000 people, suffered sexual abuse at the hands of clergy or Church-linked individuals.
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Spanish bishops will allow government to oversee compensation for sexual abuse victims
Spain’s Catholic bishops have agreed to let the Spanish government’s ombudsman have the final say in the church’s compensation of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to be prosecuted.…
This agreement, obtained after years of reticence and opacity of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, provides for "the complete reparation of victims of sexual abuse within the Church" who cannot bring the matter to justice, usually because of the prescription of the file.
Spain’s bishops agree to let government ombudsman oversee compensation of sexual abuse victims
Spain’s Catholic bishops agreed Thursday to let the Spanish government’s ombudsman have the final say in the church’s compensation of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to be prosecuted.
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