San Francisco Archdiocese agrees to $395 million settlement with sex abuse survivors

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The San Francisco Archdiocese has agreed to pay $395 million and implement a series of child protection and transparency reforms to settle hundreds of lawsuits brought by survivors who say they were sexually abused by clergy and other church employees as children. The agreement, announced Monday by plaintiffs’ attorneys and the Archdiocese , would resolve roughly 530 claims filed after California temporarily lifted the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse lawsuits and comes nearly