More than 500 survivors of child sexual abuse are set to receive compensation after the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco agreed to a $395 million (£300 million) settlement, marking one of the largest clergy abuse agreements in California's history. The deal reaches far beyond financial redress, committing the archdiocese to sweeping reforms intended to expose past failures and strengthen protections for future generations.
The agreement, announced on Monday on an official release, concludes years of negotiations following the archdiocese's 2023 bankruptcy filing, itself triggered by hundreds of lawsuits brought under California's expanded legal window allowing survivors to pursue decades-old abuse claims.
