PITTSBURGH (PA)
Tribune-Review
October 20, 2019
The Greensburg Catholic Diocese announced Thursday the amount of money paid out of a compensation fund for victims of clergy child sexual abuse.
The local totals came to $4.35 million distributed among 57 adults. That breaks down to an average of $76,315.
That’s a significant amount of money. It’s more than the U.S. Census Bureau pegs the Westmoreland County median household income of $56,702. It’s enough to buy a starter home or put a down payment on something bigger.
But does it heal wounds? Does it buy trust? Does it fix what has been broken?
That’s hard for anyone other than the victims to say, and there are a lot of them out there. The statewide grand jury report released in August 2018 detailed 70 years of abuse by 301 priests.
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