The federal government paid millions to the survivors of a serial rapist who abused children as a pediatrician at Indian Health Service hospitals in Montana and South Dakota.

The settlement, which was announced last week, is the latest step in a reckoning for the IHS and its role in enabling Stanley Patrick Weber, who spent over 30 years with the government health agency, split between the Blackfeet and Pine Ridge reservations.

While Weber is currently in prison, many others from the reservations are still healing decades later from what he inflicted.

“I've got something on my back that I can't take off,” one survivor said in 2020, just before a federal judge sentenced Weber to life in prison for his crimes on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Federal prosecutors first filed

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