NEW YORK
The Journal News
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon , jfitzgib@lohud.com May 23, 2017
The Archdiocese of New York paid out more than $1.5 million through a victim compensation program to settle sexual abuse claims filed against six former Catholic priests from the Lower Hudson Valley.
The cases date as far back as the 1970s and involve defrocked priests who include the former president of Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and onetime pastors at churches throughout Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties.
The claims against them come from seven men who were abused by the priests as children and filed claims against them through the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program, receiving individual settlements between $150,000 and $350,000.
“I think that the suburbs are a particularly troublesome area because it’s more diffused with these large parishes that were able to kind of hide multiple perpetrators over multiple time periods,” said J. Michael Reck, an attorney for the seven men, whose identities will remain confidential.
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