In partnership with:The U.S. government reached a deal with victims of a pedophile doctor who sexually assaulted Native American boys for decades at federal hospitals in Montana and South Dakota, people familiar with the matter said. In total, the government would pay the victims about $14.5 million, one of the people said. Lawyers for the victims and Justice Department officials reached the deal following a meeting with mediators in Rapid City, S.D., in late September. Those reports figured heavily in the claims of Weber’s victims, who alleged in two separate lawsuits that the government failed to meet its contractual duties to Native American tribes under 19th-century war treaties. In the civil lawsuits the government now seeks to settle, lawyers argued the government harmed Weber’s victims by failing to remove the doctor himself.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 13, 2022 07:07 UTC