GoErie.com
ERIE (PA)
November 25, 2018
By Ed Palattella
Erie Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico is again turning to outside experts as he navigates the Diocese of Erie through the clergy sex-abuse crisis.
Persico in 2016 hired a law firm from Pittsburgh, K&L Gates, to launch a sweeping internal investigation that led the diocese in April to release an unprecedented list of clergy and laypeople credibly accused of child sexual abuse and other misconduct with minors since the 1940s.
Persico is now hiring another outside expert to administer the diocese’s victims’ compensation fund, a response to the August statewide grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.
The diocese, Persico said, will retain the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Ken Feinberg, one of the nation’s most prominent authorities on compensation funds. Feinberg and co-administrator Camille Biros handled the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, set up following the terrorist attacks, and compensation funds for theater shooting victims in Aurora, Colorado, and the victims of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster.
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