Compensation – Mammoth $ 4 billion in nearly 7,000 victims of sexual abuse in orphanage and minors’ detention centers, Los Angeles County will pay, as the authorities have announced.

“The historical significance of this decision clearly shows that we are determined to help survivors recover and rebuild their lives, as well as to adopt and implement the systemic changes necessary to guarantee the security of young people,” said the head of County.

The agreement, which must receive the approval of a Supreme County Inspector Council, aims to compensate victims 1980, 1990 and 2000.

“On behalf of the county I sincerely apologize to all those who were victims of these epileptic acts,” Davenport said.

A law adopted in 2020 in the state of California has stood the period during which those who have fallen victim to sexual abuse in their childhood could be reserved to justice.

Authorities, however, have warned that this compensation would have “significant implications” for years on the financial, the largest in the US, based on its number of residents, nearly ten million, which has an annual budget of $ 49 billion.

O Largest Sexual Abuse Settlement in History

In 2022 the Boy Scouts of America, who have now changed his name, agreed to pay $ 2.46 billion to more than 80,000 men who were sexually abused when they were children by members and executives of the movement.

The Los Angeles Archdiocese has paid about $ 1.5 billion for alleged abuse in the hands of Catholic priests.

Victims of Gynecologist George Tyndall at USC University received $ 1.1 billion.

The University of Michigan paid $ 500 million to the victims of the team’s doctor, Larry Nassar.

“This is the greatest settlement of sexual abuse in history,” said Adam Slater, a key lawyer of both Los Antles and Scouts in the settlements.

The shocking testimonies

Hundreds of people, adults today, narrated their sexual attacks on boarding houses, mainly to Maclaren’s Children’s Center, which closed in 2003 and hosted children who expected to be given to foster families.

A man complained that he was sexually abused by a doctor in this boarding school when he was 8 years oldwhile another stated that he was attacked by an age worker 5 years old.

According to court documents from appeals filed, MacLaren Children’s Center officials often put on isolation the children, the narcane and They were tied to chairs.

Research on this “The House of Frick”, as described by the victims’ lawyers, has revealed that for decades no controls were made in the historical and criminal record of workers.

With information from Latimes.com, RES-EIA