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Aug 04, 2011
Dover Post

The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and victims of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of this Catholic religious order have reached a $23.6 million settlement after seven years of legal proceeding.

The settlement involves 39 cases in Delaware Superior Court against the Oblate-run Salesianum School in Wilmington, the Delaware-Pennsylvania Province of the Oblates, 220 priests and the worldwide Oblate organization that is composed of another 220 priests throughout the world, attorneys with the Neuberger Law Firm in Wilmington said Thursday.

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Under terms of the settlement, Oblates will pay $23.587 million to the 154 victims of abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington bankruptcy and nearly $1.275 million for two survivors who sued the Oblates and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Neuberger attorneys said.

The Diocese of Wilmington had previously agreed to pay victims $77.425 million in its bankruptcy organization. With the settlement, the survivors of abuse have received a total of $102.3 million.

The Oblates are an independent order.

Terms of the settlement also include:

• Release of the names of 12 admitted Oblate sexual predators, which the religious order had refused to do heretofore
• Agreement to deliver letters of apology to the 39 survivors
• Intense training designed to prevent child abuse to all priests training in the Delaware-Pennsylvania Province
• Further policies to protect children and to release previously secret documents regarding child abuse – similar to those adopted by the Diocese of Wilmington

The lawsuits involved accusations of abuse that occurred between 1955 and 1991, according to legal briefs.

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The concessions by the local Oblates are substantial, but the survivors could only claim “partial victory in their long battle against the Oblates, attorney Thomas S. Neuberger said. Namely, the worldwide Oblates order headquartered in Rome refused to change any of its policies to better protect children.

“So, if your child is around an Oblate in Philadelphia or Wilmington in the future, you might feel a little safer,” he said. “But if you come across an Oblate in Germany, Rome, India or South America, parents beware.”

Eight of the Oblates – not of all whom are priests – are deceased, Greenfield said. The remaining four have been removed from ministry and are living in monitored locations, he added.

But co-counsel Stephen J. Neuberger expressed concern that two of the men have been moved from a Maryland farm to Washington, D.C.

“Two are still on the farm, but we also expect them to be set loose soon,” he said.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests blasted the Oblates for ashamed for trying to use legal technicalities to overturn the state, which gave victims more time to expose predators in court.

“They’ll say pleasant platitudes in public now, but the truth is that they fought tooth and nail to prevent these victims from having any legal recourse and prevent these predators from being known to parishioners, parents and the public,” SNAP Western Regional Director of Joelle Casteix said out of Newport Beach, Calif.

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