The Kansas City Star newspaper has reported that the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese's total cost for resolving disputes now totals more than $10 million (£6.5), since one of its priests had been charged with producing child pornography four years ago.
The figures from the year ending in June 2014 do not include legal costs incurred after that date, associated with a $9.95m (£6.5) settlement in October involving 32 victims.
Some alleged victims accused abuse going back several decades, however the diocese said the numbers are not yet available.
Despite that it is thought that the diocese has paid more than $27 million (£17.5 m) in settlements and litigation costs related to sexual abuse claims against priests over the past four years.
The Kansas City Star has said a recent report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops shows that this is not an isolated problem.
It shows that since 2004, the Catholic Church in the U.S has paid nearly $3 billion (£1.9bn) in costs associated with sexual abuse, according to an annual survey by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.
In 2014's financial year, religious orders and dioceses spent $119m (£77m) on settlements to victims, therapy and attorney's fees.
53 per cent of those payments were victim settlements, with legal fees accounting for around 24 per cent.
The church spent around $32 million (£21m) on training, background checks and other efforts in safeguarding.
The survey was part of an annual report into how dioceses are complying with the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.
It found that the number of abuse cases in the church is decreasing, and most allegations were made between the 1960's and 1980's.
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said although positive progress has been made: "we must remain ever vigilant in the protection of children."
He wrote in a statement that: "Though our promise to protect and heal made in 2002 remains strong, we must not become complacent with what has been accomplished.
"It is my hope and prayer that as we continue to fulfil our promise, the Church will help model ways of addressing and bringing to light the darkness and evil of abuse wherever it exists."
In Kansas City, the diocese spent about $6m (£4m) in the past financial year on sexual abuse cases, according to the diocesan report. Expenses are funded by the Diocesan Property and Casualty Insurance Program.
A local Catholic, Tom White, who has been a vocal critic of the way cases are handled, said it was disheartening to see how much money the sexual abuse scandals have cost the church.
He said: "If there's money to be paid to the victims, by all means they should get their just deserts for their pain, because it will never go away.
"But the rest of that money could have gone to feed the poor or any of those kinds of things that are in current need."
