COVINGTON (OH)
Cincinnati Enquirer
By Jim Hannah
Enquirer staff writer
COVINGTON - A judge gave another nod to a proposed settlement in the nation's only class- action suit alleging sexual abuse by priests.
Special Judge John Potter of Louisville this time put his approval of the proposal in writing.
The Covington Diocese and lawyers for sexual-abuse victims, who claim sexual abuse was covered up for 50 years, were waiting for that before they began advertising nationally to ask any further victims to come forward.
Friday, an ad announcing the proposal will be published in USA Today. In the days that follow, ads will appear in newspapers across Kentucky, on television and radio, and in the diocese's own newspaper.
The advertisements will ask anyone who has ever been abused by an employee of the Covington Diocese to send in a confidential form. Anyone choosing to submit a claim must return the form by Nov. 10.