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Spanish bishops and government sign deal for compensation of church sexual abuse victims
MADRID (AP) — Spain's Catholic bishops and the Spanish government took another step Monday toward compensating victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to be prosecuted.
The government and the Catholic Church in Spain today formalized an agreement under which the Church will pay compensation to victims of sexual abuse in church institutions even in cases that have become statute-barred or where the perpetrators have died. The agreement was signed today in Madrid by the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, the leadership of the Spanish Church and the Spanish Ombudsman.
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The number of victims could be in the hundreds of thousands. The proceedings are aimed primarily at those whose cases cannot be prosecuted.
The government of Pedro Sanchez and the Spanish Church signed the agreement on Monday, after years of reluctance and opacity of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. It concerns "the cases that are prescribed or when the author has died".
The initial agreement was signed on 8 January, but all parties then had to start negotiating the details of these compensations and the protocols to deal with the victims, in a process that had so far been solely in the hands of the Church.
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ondacero.esEconomic reparation for victims will be provided by the Church. It is a historic agreement in which the Ombudsman has played a key role,More information: The Church receives 506 complaints of sexual abuse in two years
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