NEW YORK (NY)
Spectrum News NY 1
October 26, 2017
By Lindsay Tuchman
[Note: Includes a video showing a poster naming eight accused New York priests:
– Msgr. John O’Keefe (with photo)
– Fr. Herbert D’Argenio
– Msgr. Casper Wolf (with photo)
– Fr. Peter Kihm (with photo)
– Fr. Ralph LaBelle
– Fr. Francis Stinner (with photo)
– Fr. Richard Gorman (with photo)
– Fr. Gennaro “Jerry” Gentile (with photo)
Two of these priests, D’Argenio and Wolf, are being accused publicly for the first time. Some of the settlements referenced in this article pertain to D’Argenio and Wolf. It is not clear from the article which of the other eight priests on the poster are involved in the announced settlements. A media advisory from Jeff Anderson & Associates about the settlement announcement provides assignment histories for the eight priests and two others:
– Fr. Herbert McElroy
– Fr. Francis Stinner.
See also BishopAccountability.org database entries for O’Keefe, Kihm, LaBelle, Stinner, Gorman, Gentile, McElroy, and Prochaski.]
Six new settlements in some child sex abuse cases facing the Catholic Church were announced Wednesday as part of a new program within the Diocese of Brooklyn, which also covers Queens, and the Archdiocese of New York, which covers the other three boroughs. As NY1’s Lindsay Tuchman reports, two unidentified abusers were also revealed.
The law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates presented the photos of some Catholic priests who are accused of sexually abusing children in the city.
The Catholic Church has made financial settlements with their accusers, six of those settlements having been announced Wednesday.
“This is a methodology to create some acknowledgement, some accountability, and some measure of justice that’s not available for survivors of childhood trauma through the court system,” said Mike Reck, an attorney with the law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates.
Five men and one woman were awarded a total of $1.8 million as part of the “Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program” (IRCP), which was established by the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn.
The program is a mechanism for sexual abuse victims to file claims for financial compensation.
The six victims said they were abused as children from 1959 to 1988. Two of the priests, Father Herbert D’Argenio and Father Casper Wolf — both of the Bronx, and both believed to be dead — were publicly named by their accusers for the first time Wednesday.
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