Priest Victims Get $10M Payout

Four lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles have been settled with the church agreeing to pay $9.9 million to victims of priest Michael Baker. This is one of many settlements the church has made on behalf of Baker, who abused two boys in the 1980s and was sent to treatment, but later was reinstated only to molest again. In 2007 he was convicted and sent to prison. The 12,000 pages of internal documents released in January mentioned Baker and implicated L.A.’s Archdiocese, Cardinal Roger Mahony, in helping put Baker back in the ministry.