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New Mexico

Beartracks

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1. Thank you for posting. Makes one think of the costs of such justice.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 02:05 AM

Jun 2015

A commenter asks at the end of the article: "How is robbing the Thoreau Dine community in any sense a just outcome for the sexual victimization of children?"

... Which is exactly what I was thinking as I read it. 57 victims of abuse... but several hundred victims of the settlement. This is justice?

Money for the abuse victims is just monetary compensation. But the services and infrastructure provided by St. Bonaventure to people all over that region of New Mexico are necessities for life and dignity. There must be a better way.

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Thank you for posting. Makes one think of the costs of such justice. Beartracks Jun 2015 #1

You're welcome. TexasTowelie Jun 2015 #2