HARRISBURG (PA)
The Herald
December 2, 2018
By John Finnerty
A compensation fund for victims of priest abuse is up-and-running in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and similar funds are in various stages of development in other dioceses across the state.
The Philadelphia fund launched Nov. 13. Victims of priest abuse have until Sept. 30, 2019, to file claims seeking compensation.
The fund is being overseen by Kenneth Feinberg, who had the same responsibility with funds for victims of priest abuse in New York.
The compensation fund came in the wake of a series of grand jury investigations into the church’s decades-long policy of covering up priest abuse. The final report, covering six dioceses, concluded that there had been 300 predator priests who’d molested at least 1,000 victims.
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