In case after case, judges have signed off on secret settlements of child-molestation suits, freeing the offending priests to molest again.
Just as the winter ice closed in around the small settlement of Nome, children had begun dying of diphtheria.
In New York City, a December 1998 settlement of a Children's Rights suit established an expert panel that evaluates and monitors the system.
Winton, who has often been nicknamed "the British Schindler", organised the transportation and settlement of 669 children over nine months before the second world war broke out in September 1939.
Me and my brother Gary were walking past this settlement of Gypsy children in Bristol recently when he came out with, "Y'know what, Jack?
Many Amish regard Mr. Mullet as a danger to the wider community and above all to the 120 people in the settlement, including dozens of children growing up under his sway.
Towns full of unaccompanied child migrantsThe border states of Texas and Chihuahua are now both host to settlements of migrant children.
"This settlement assures that thousands of children suffering from asthma will be properly treated," said Gretchen Buchenholz, executive director of the Association to Benefit Children, one of three groups that filed the lawsuit on behalf of homeless children.
"This is one of the strongest settlements for the benefit of children that I have ever seen," Ms. Lowry said.
Because of the size of the settlement, reunifying children like Pascal with their families or even with fellow villagers has been a daunting task.
