HOLLIDAYSBURG (PA)
Altoona Mirror
By Phil Ray
HOLLIDAYSBURG - The state Superior Court has upheld a $1 million punitive damage award against the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese.
The award stems from sexual abuse of a former Altoona boy by a priest at St. Therese Parish and its elementary school in the 1970s.
A three-member panel of the state appeals court called "outrageous" the actions by the late Bishop James J. Hogan and the diocese, which ignored pleas of children and parents.