The Diocese under the Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa will be filing for bankruptcy Monday due to the large number of lawsuits filed against it from people who allege they were sexually abused, Bishop Robert Vasa said Friday.
The lawsuits came in the wake of a three-year window declared by Gov. Gavin Newsom beginning in 2020 and ending on Dec. 31, 2022 that overruled the normal statute of limitations and opened the floodgates for litigation.
"These cases are too numerous to settle individually and so they have accumulated until the closing of the three-year window," Vasa said Friday in his statement."Now that the window is closed, we have received notice of at least 160 claims and we have information that perhaps more than 200 claims have been filed in total against the Diocese."
Currently, 11 dioceses across the country have entered into bankruptcy proceedings for the same reasons and over two dozen have in the past decade.
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