New Orleans archbishop meets with survivors of clergy sexual abuse

Series of meetings is mandated by $305m settlement agreement for 600 survivors of decades-long abuse scandal

A small number of victims of New Orleans' Catholic clergy abuse scandal filed into a local church office recently for the first of 10 group meetings with Archbishop Gregory Aymond.

The New Orleans archdiocese agreed to the meetings as part of settling its six-year-old federal bankruptcy protection case in December. Such group and one-on-one meetings are some of the non-monetary terms of a settlement that is expected to otherwise pay about 600 abuse survivors $305m.