Portugal's Catholic Church will financially compensate victims of child sexual abuse within the Church, setting the amounts to be paid on a case-by-case basis, it announced on Thursday.
FATIMA, Portugal - Portugal 's Catholic Church said on Thursday it will financially compensate victims of child sexual abuse within the Church, setting the amounts to be paid on a case-by-case basis, an approach survivors' groups have criticized.Members of Portugal 's Bishops' Conference have been meeting since Monday at the Shrine of Fatima in central Portugal to discuss the compensation, among other issues.
A committee will then determine the amount to be given to each victim and a newly created CEP fund will be used to make the payments, Ornelas said.The criteria for deciding the amounts is still being worked on, Ornelas said, explaining that no maximum amount has been set and the gravity of cases would be taken into consideration.Antonio Grosso, co-founder of church sexual abuse survivors' group Coracao Silenciado , pointed a finger at CEP's case-by-case approach.
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