ALLENTOWN (PA)
Lehigh Valley Live
August 16, 2018
By Tony Rhodin
Allentown City Council on Wednesday night fired the city solicitor a day after his controversial handling of a sexual abuse allegation came to light in a statewide grand jury report on abuse of children by clergy.
The grand jury report says Thomas Traud told the Allentown Diocese to discredit a victim and reassign an allegedly offending priest.
Councilman Courtney Robinson introduced the action to fire Traud — something that eventually happened in a unanimous vote — after speaking broadly about the report.
“I am a practicing Catholic and I am disgusted and I am appalled at what was done in the name of my faith,” he said, according to a recording of the meeting posted by council. “As a Catholic and an elected official I feel it necessary to apologize to every victim of this and to state the unimaginable pain and sorrow that you’re going through was only compounded from this.
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