Thirty men who were sexually abused decades ago as children at two Catholic schools in the Seattle area will split about $12.1 million from the Archdiocese of Seattle, which owned the schools, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported today. The deal between the victims and the Archdiocese of Seattle will end several lawsuits that had been filed in Washington state over incidents of abuse that took place at Bishop O'Dea High School and the now-closed Briscoe School, a boarding school, starting in the 1950s. The Archdiocese of Seattle will pay for the settlement using insurance money, according to Archbishop Sartain's statement.
