CA Diocese Seeks Bankruptcy Amid Child Sex Lawsuits

San Francisco’s CBS affiliate reports:

The Diocese of Santa Rosa filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on Monday in the face of potentially hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits. Bishop Robert Vasa had announced the filing was imminent in a media release.

“This decision was made necessary due to the number of child sexual abuse lawsuits filed against the Diocese over the course of the past three years,” Vasa said in the release.

Those suits were made possible by a 2019 California law that opened a three-year period during which victims of alleged childhood sexual abuse could file lawsuits that were otherwise prohibited under existing statute of limitation rules.

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The diocese is also being sued for allegedly transferring assets to shield them from settlements. Watch the clip.