NEW YORK
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By Ryan Whalen
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

BUFFALO, N.Y. — HoganWillig Attorneys at Law represents two people who claim to have been child victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.

“Often times, that becomes a life-altering event that affects people for the rest of their lives, such that they need counseling, they need therapy and they need closure,” attorney Steven Cohen said.

Both clients are older than 23, the age when the statute of limitations expires in New York, but rather than turn them away, the firm said it would look at other options to try and get them justice.

“We were instrumental in having the Pope address this issue and the Pope said all the right things but His Holiness did not follow through either,” he said.

Cohen’s faith in the Vatican to make amends was wavering, so he and…