Pedophiles, Priests, and Pay-Outs

An interesting new side is emerging in the sex abuse scandal, as Jeff Mirus describes:

...two recent stories...suggest that there is far more at work in the financial dispositions following the scandal than immediately meets the eye. Nobody with any experience of the ridiculous settlements attendant upon lawsuits in America will be surprised by this. But just this week, one attorney in California filed a report to the effect that a huge number of sex abuse complaints are fraudulent and, in fact, have been triggered by the easy money to be had from an institution which is generally disliked by those who sit in judgment (see False abuse accusations against priests common, lawyer argues).

But fraudulent claimants might be less likely to emerge if they knew how an abuse victim identified as “GB” has fared. GB claims that attorneys sucked up $877,000 of his $900,000 settlement (see Sex-abuse victim says lawyers claims nearly all of award). Once again, American jurisprudence may prove itself to be a money machine for the professional elites who run the system, as justice recedes still further into the rear view mirror...