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If You Are a Survivor Reading About This Verdict You may have seen the news and felt something shift inside you. A jury in Oakland just told a survivor of clergy abuse that what happened to him was real, that the institution that let it happen is responsible, and that his suffering is worth $16 million. Maybe you carried the same secret for decades. Maybe you thought it was too late. Maybe you filed a claim when the California Legislature briefly opened the courthouse doors and you have been waiting in the bankruptcy process ever since, wondering whether anyone would ever be held accountable. We are writing this page for you. The shame and guilt you have carried since childhood are not yours to bear. That is not a platitude — it is what a jury of twelve people in an Alameda County courtroom just said, in the only language the civil justice system speaks: a verdict. The survivor in this case was ten years old when the abuse began. He waited more than fifty years for someone in authority to confirm what he already knew. The jury confirmed it. The institution that enabled it was found liable. Our firm…