"You have to ask yourself, why is every diocese in the country dealing with child sex abuse? The answer is, the coverup, the protection afforded to child predators."

"I felt like everything that had mattered to me was gone," Amber Scorah says of her decision to leave the Jehovah's Witness community she grew up in. Her new memoir is Leaving The Witness.

“For approximately two years when my client was 5 to 7, and the supervisors of Father Francis Vogt were complicit and negligent in the sexual abuse of my client."

"One of my own pastors was dismissed because of charges. So I’ve seen the pain in parish communities. I’ve seen people's lives totally destroyed. So I just want to be a healing presence."

"No one who reported their abuse after March 1, 2018 has been allowed to be part of this program. And according to reports, 135 cases, claims, have been rejected by the two judges who are running this program."

"I want to thank you for your support of the seminarians and what they're doing. We're doing so much to try to get them to have the freedom to make these reports and right now, as we close up the year, you're an encouragement to them."

"You’re not talking about going to the DA’s office. You’re going to a bishop’s office or archbishop’s office,”

The Syracuse Roman Catholic Diocese paid out nearly $11 million on 79 claims of child sexual abuse during its Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program.

The disclosure from one of the largest archdioceses in the U.S. follows similar revelations that further exposed the depth of a decades-long abuse crisis in Catholic communities across the nation.

The Diocese will expand the use of its ethics hotline, beyond reports of financial fraud or irregularity, to include all reports of any ethical improprieties, sexual abuse or harassment or financial fraud.