San Francisco Archdiocese agrees to $395 million settlement with clergy sex abuse survivors
Source: CBS News
Updated on: June 29, 2026 / 2:55 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco
The Archdiocese of San Francisco has agreed to pay nearly $400 million in a settlement with survivors of clergy sexual abuse, lawyers for the survivors announced on Monday.
The settlement establishes a trust to compensate over 500 survivors with childhood sexual abuse claims against the Roman Catholic archdiocese, as well as the establishment of child protection reforms to protect children from abuse, according to the attorney group Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala PLLC.
In 2023, the San Francisco Archdiocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following a flood of child sexual abuse claims against priests. The civils lawsuits were enabled by California law AB 218 which went into effect in 2020, which expanded the statute of limitations and allowed for triple damages against institutions that covered up the abuse.
"This settlement represents an important step toward accountability, but it should not be mistaken for a measure of the harm these survivors endured," said PCVA attorney Neda Lotfi in a prepared statement. "No settlement can undo the profound trauma these survivors have carried for decades, and no amount of compensation can fully account for the damage that was done."
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