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\n<\/span><\/p>\nAn order of US Catholic priests has agreed to pay $166.1m (\u00a3103.3m) to hundreds of Native Americans sexually abused by priests at its schools.<\/p>\n
The former students at Jesuit schools in five states of the north-western US said they were abused from the 1940s through the 1990s.<\/p>\n
Under a settlement, the Society of Jesus, Oregon Province, will also apologise to the victims.<\/p>\n
The order had argued paying out abuse claims would cause it to go bankrupt.<\/p>\n
“It’s a day of reckoning and justice,” Clarita Vargas, who said she and two sisters were abused by a priest at a Jesuit-run school for Native American children in the state of Washington, told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
“My spirit was wounded, and this makes it feel better.”<\/p>\n
The province ran schools in the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.<\/p>\n
Most of the alleged victims were Native American. Much of the alleged abuse occurred on Native reservations and in remote villages, where the order was accused of dumping problem priests.<\/p>\n
“No amount of money can bring back a lost childhood, a destroyed culture or a shattered faith,” lawyer Blaine Tamaki, who represented about 90 victims in the case, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The payout is one of the largest to date in a series of sex abuse scandals involving the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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