The Jesuit order has agreed to pay more than $ 166 million to more than 500 victims who were sexually abused as children in Catholic schools in five states in northwestern United States, announced on Saturday the lawyer for the victims. The money will be paid for in part by the Jesuits and in part by insurance.
Most affected are American Indian and Alaska who suffered abuse by priests called Oregín Province, which covers the states of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Montana. The abuses committed between 1940 and 1990 in schools in remote villages or reservations, where they alleged the order sent to the priests who considered problematic.
Clarita Vargas, a member of the tribe Colvill, is one of the victims and appeared before reporters along with attorney Blaine Tamaki to conclude that "justice has been done." "It is a day of accountability," said Vargas, 51, who along with her sisters suffered the abuses of the head of the Mission and St.
Mary's School when they were just seven years. The lawyer said that this is the most affordable payment made by a Catholic order. The Society of Jesus Oregon Province, which covers five states, filed for bankruptcy in 2009 after reaching an agreement with another hundred victims. Tamaki believe that with this agreement, the Jesuits "recognize that betrayed the trust of hundreds of children in his care and committed terrible atrocities against them." "Instead of teaching these Native American children the love of God, those pedophile priests were abusing these kids," said the newspaper 'The Seattle Post Intelligencer.
" Told the same newspaper, Clarita Vargas found that these attacks against her and other Native children have been "a generational trauma" for them. 
Most affected are American Indian and Alaska who suffered abuse by priests called Oregín Province, which covers the states of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Montana. The abuses committed between 1940 and 1990 in schools in remote villages or reservations, where they alleged the order sent to the priests who considered problematic.
Clarita Vargas, a member of the tribe Colvill, is one of the victims and appeared before reporters along with attorney Blaine Tamaki to conclude that "justice has been done." "It is a day of accountability," said Vargas, 51, who along with her sisters suffered the abuses of the head of the Mission and St.
Mary's School when they were just seven years. The lawyer said that this is the most affordable payment made by a Catholic order. The Society of Jesus Oregon Province, which covers five states, filed for bankruptcy in 2009 after reaching an agreement with another hundred victims. Tamaki believe that with this agreement, the Jesuits "recognize that betrayed the trust of hundreds of children in his care and committed terrible atrocities against them." "Instead of teaching these Native American children the love of God, those pedophile priests were abusing these kids," said the newspaper 'The Seattle Post Intelligencer.
" Told the same newspaper, Clarita Vargas found that these attacks against her and other Native children have been "a generational trauma" for them.
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