PORTLAND (OR)
The Oregonian
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
STEVE WOODWARD
Two months after the most recent suicide of a priest sexual-abuse plaintiff, a federal bankruptcy judge said Monday that she will allow the Archdiocese of Portland to resume paying counseling expenses for some remaining plaintiffs.
The church had paid for counseling for certain sex-abuse claimants before July 2004, when the archdiocese declared bankruptcy.
Two suicides and one apparent suicide among plaintiffs since December prompted lawyer Daniel J. Gatti, who represents more than two dozen men alleging clergy abuse, to ask the court to permit the archdiocese to resume the payments.