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The Diocese of Camden Settlement: What It Means for Survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse in New Jersey If you are reading this because you survived sexual abuse by clergy in South Jersey — or because someone you love did — you already know more about this story than any headline can carry. You know what the silence costs. You know what it took to even begin to think about coming forward, and you may be wondering whether this settlement, this number on a screen, has anything to do with you. We are writing this page because it might. And because the answer to that question has a deadline attached to it. The Diocese of Camden has agreed to pay $180 million into a trust for more than 300 survivors of clergy sexual abuse. That settlement supplements a prior $87.5 million settlement reached in 2022, bringing the total to approximately $267.5 million in compensation across the diocese’s six South Jersey counties — Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem. The diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020, and this settlement still needs to be approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court overseeing that case before a single dollar moves. We…