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Broken Faith: Inside the Catholic Church's Plan to Quietly Pay Survivirs of Sexual Abuse [vice.com]

 

When Paul Barr was 16 years old, a priest asked him to the rectory of the Sacred Heart church in Niagara Falls, New York. Barr remembers that the priest handed him a beer, suggested that he lie down, and then touched his groin.

Four decades later, Barr learned that his story was worth $45,000.

In January, Barr got the offer from the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, as he sat at his desk at his law firm a few blocks from the Canadian border. Barr was prepared for disappointment; he was accustomed to the Catholic Church letting him down. But he still felt betrayed by the offer.

[For more on this story by Carter Sherman and Joe Hill, go to https://news.vice.com/en_us/ar...ors-of-sexual-abuse?]

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