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OCTOBER 6, 2016, BY MARY MURPHY
NEW YORK — Victims of sex abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy will be paid as part of a newly created program by the church in New York, Archbishop of New York Timothy Cardinal Dolan announced Thursday.
“One sin, one crime, one scandal has gravely wounded us in the Church,” Dolan said about the sexual abuse of minors by priests.
He called sex abuse by priests “nauseating.”
Dolan said the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program (IRCP) will be financed by a long-term loan, that no fundraising money or parishioners’ donations will be utilized, and the program will be overseen by Kenneth Feinberg, a well-known mediator and attorney who administered the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
Decisions about individual compensation will be made by an independent oversight committee, comprised of former NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska, and Dr. Jeanette Gueva of Columbia University, an expert in child psychiatry.
The announcement comes as advocates are pressing lawmakers to make it easier to sue abusers.
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