St. Louis Archdiocese Spending More on Lawyers Than on Sex Abuse Victims
The St. Louis Archdiocese has released financial figures showing it spent $352,000 last fiscal year on payments to victims of predator priests -- and more than twice that amount on lawyers. Numbers released by the archdiocese Friday show more was paid in legal fees than to victims for five of the past 10 fiscal years. An advocacy group for abuse victims said Monday that fewer cases of clergy sex abuse are being filed, so legal costs should be declining.
