Court: St. Louis Priest Defamed by Anti-Sex Abuse Group

ST. LOUIS (ChurchMilitant.com) - A federal judge is ruling a St. Louis priest was the victim of defamation by an anti-sex abuse advocacy group that conspired against him.
On August 22, US. District Judge Carol E. Jackson wrote in a court order that the Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) made public accusations that "were false and that they did not conduct any inquiry into the truth or falsity of these public statements, but instead made these statements negligently and with reckless disregard for the truth."

http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/st.-louis-priest-defamed-by-anti-sex-abuse-group-rules-judge 

Church tricked into paying for false claims New Zealand

This is what makes it bad for all raped victims/survivors... it is hard enough in coming forward... and the going through your childhood abuse for years... 23years it took me to get proof... of the rape by a priest... since 1997 when I first came forward... to tell the nuns and the catholic church... about the abuse and rape which was done to me... in the two catholic church orphanages... and it was hard going through those years... it was like getting beaten down... day after day... finding the Family I was sent to in 1956... were the priest raped me... but one thing I am so please about... the TRUTH won out in the end...
This is one of the reasons... why all child abuse... and child rape claims... should be handed over to the police...  Ann 

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The Catholic Church told police it was duped into paying $188,000 to a woman who claimed she was injured when raped by a priest.
The police only became aware of the woman's claims that she was raped by a Palmerston North Catholic priest - who abused her with a knife and a broken bottle - when the church learned it had been duped out of the payments.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/80898450/Church-tricked-into-paying-for-false-claims