Settlements Sent To Abuse Claimants
Checks totaling $3.2 million have been mailed out to 117 people who say they were sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests. The checks emptied a compensation fund the Archdiocese of Cincinnati created to help end a prosecutor's investigation.
An independent three-member panel created to administer the fund closed its work by mailing the checks yesterday across the 19-county, southwestern Ohio archdiocese. The amount disbursed represents $3 million used to establish the fund in 2003 plus $200,000 in interest it had generated since then.
Read the article at ONN. Ohio News Now dated March 9, 2005
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