The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached a historic $880 million settlement over hundreds of child sex abuse claims. The agreement in principle announced Wednesday settles 1,354 child sexual abuse claims, the plaintiffs’ attorney said in a news release. It is the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse in the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached a settlement of nearly 900 million with alleged victims of clerical sexual abuse, reportedly the largest of its kind to date

The settlement is the highest single payout by an archdiocese, experts said, and brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.

The agreement, believed to be the largest single settlement of its kind by a Catholic archdiocese, will settle 1,353 claims of childhood sexual abuse.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who say they were sexually abused as children by members of the church.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who alleged that they were sexually abused as children by Catholic priests, in the largest settlement by a U.

The settlement brings to roughly $1.5 billion the amount paid out by the archdiocese to resolve sex abuse cases over the past two decades.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who say they were sexually abused as children by clergy.

Attorneys for 1,353 people who allege that they suffered horrific abuse at the hands of Catholic priests reached the settlement after months of negotiations with the archdiocese, the LA Times reported.