And that $17.6 million was only to settle cases from 2005 to 2010. There are court documented cases of priest/pedophile abuse that were settled from 1975 onward.
Sexual abuse scandal in Burlington diocese
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The sexual abuse scandal in Burlington diocese is a significant episode in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States. The court-documented cases covered abuse in the 1970s. The courts heard these cases from 2005 through 2010. In 2010, 26 cases remaining were settled for $17.6 million.1]
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-05-13-vermont-priest-abuse_N.htm
Here are the stats on Burlington diocese's financial exposure for its pedophile priests BEFORE 2005:
All of the following information comes from documentation of complaints registered between 1950 and 2002 and contained in the Burlington Vermont diocesan files.
The documents of the Diocese of Burlington reveal a history of neglect and at times complete disregard for the welfare of minors and others who were sexually assaulted and abused by its clergy. This history is no better or worse than other dioceses or religious orders. It is only one example. We can all learn and profit from understanding the facts and the pressures under which priests are asked to serve their people.
1. Sexual Orientation: Of the 102 priests in the Burlington Diocese whose records were available forty-four (44) can be determined to have a heterosexual orientation based on accounts of their behaviors; also from reports of behaviors forty-nine (49) priests can be said to have a homosexual orientation; six (6) priests can be called bi-sexual from accounts of their behaviors. There was insufficient information to determine the orientation of three (3) priests.
2. Alcohol was noted as an element in eighteen (18) cases of problem behavior. Two priests were sent to treatment specifically for alcoholism.
3. Sex With Teens: Twenty-nine (29) priests were involved in sex with minors over the age of 14. Two (2) of the priests were sexually active with teen-aged girls, twenty-seven (27) with teen-aged boys.
4. Sex With Children: Twenty-three (23) priests were sexually involved with children under the age of 13 years. Nineteen (19) priests were sexually in involved with boys. Four (4) priests were sexually involved with girls under the age of 13. Three priests sexually abused both boys and girls under the age of 13. On the basis of these reports these priests can be diagnosed as pedophiles. The youngest child victim reported was a girl 3 years old; the youngest boy was 5 years old.
5. Behaviors With Minors: The types of sexual behaviors of priests with minors are of special concern. Many records of behaviors with minors are vague and are listed as foundling or “foundling +” to indicate sexually inappropriate touch on the skin, including masturbation, or outside the clothing plus activities minors do not want to specify. Sleeping with minor boys and bathing nude with them was frequently reported. Anal rape of adolescent boys is noted in reports of two priests; in addition anal intercourse is recorded 5 times and oral copulation is also noted 5 times in the list of abuse of minor boys. The use of pornography and incidents of voyeurism were reported. At least two (2) minors were solicited for sex during confession. There is no report that either incident was investigated and processed according to church law. Of all the offenders only two priests were convicted of sexual crimes against minors.
6. Sex With Adult or Married Women: Fifteen priests (15) were reported for involvement with married women; twelve priests (12) had relationships with adult women; two (2) priests impregnated a partner, one was 17 years old; four (4) priests were reported for sexual involvement with housekeepers;
7. Adult Consensual Sex: Although sexual relations between unattached consenting adults is ordinarily a private matter, the power position of a Catholic priest, and the public assurance that he is by profession sexually safe make his sexual activity with adults hypocritical and questionable at the very least. Adult consensual sex is ordinarily not criminal, however, the circumstances listed above create a climate vulnerable to harassment and abuse. Many adult women who report assault register dissatisfaction with church authority when they complain of mistreatment at the hands of a priest. Regardless of the circumstances frequently the woman in such a liaison is branded as the seducer and the priest is easily exonerated and even promoted. This can prevail even following an abortion insisted on by the priest of a pregnancy of his child.
8. Reports named nineteen (19) priests who had sexual relationships with adult men. There are instances of adult homosexual relations of priests with men or other priests that border on the criminal, however rarely reported.
http://www.awrsipe.com/diocesan_profiles/diocese_of_burlington.htm
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