MEDIA RELEASE – APRIL 9, 2017

By Robert M. Hoatson
Road to Recovery SON OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GREAT JIMMY PEARSALL, CHRIS PEARSALL, AND OTHER MEN WILL ANNOUNCE A SETTLEMENT OF $880,000.00 FOR CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE CLAIMS AGAINST FATHER JAMES NICKEL, SS.CC. ATTORNEY MITCHELL GARABEDIAN REPRESENTS THE EIGHT (8) CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMSTHE CONGREGATION OF THE SACRED HEARTS RELIGIOUS ORDER, BASED IN FAIRHAVEN, MA, AND THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER, MA, RECENTLY SETTLED EIGHT (8) CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE CASES OF MINOR CHILDREN AGAINST FR. JAMES NICKEL, SS.CC., WHO SERVED AT HOLY TRINITY PARISH, WEST HARWICH, MA, ON CAPE COD, AND AT ST. FRANCIS DE SALES PARISH, MARSH HARBOUR, ABACO ISLAND, THE BAHAMAS, FOR SEVERAL YEARS WhatA press conference announcing a settlement of $880,000.00 for eight (8) clergy sexual abuse victims of Fr. James Nickel, SS.CC., a deceased member ofCongregatiofSacred Hearts religious order, who abused several minor children when he was assigned to Holy Trinity Parish, West Harwich, MA, Cape Cod, and St. Francis de Sales Parish Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island,Bahamas. Fr. James Nickel sexually abused West Harwich, MA; Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island,Bahamas; Illinois; New York; Washington, DC; Rhode Island; and, New Hampshire. WhenMonday, April 10, 2017 at 11:30 AM
April 9, 2017

Where In a third floor conference room of the Hilton Hotel, 89 Broad Street, Boston, MA, 02110 Who Chris Pearsall, son of former Major League baseball star, Jimmy Pearsall, and other men who were sexually abused by Fr. James Nickel, SS.CC., when they were minor children and members of Holy Trinity Parish in West Harwich, MA, on Cape Cod; their attorney, Mitchell Garabedian of Boston, MA; and, Dr. Robert M. Hoatson, President of Road to Recovery, Inc., which has provided assistance to the victim/survivors and their families Why Fr. James Nickel, SS.CC., a deceased member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts religious order which was or is based in Fairhaven, MA, was assigned to Holy Trinity Parish in West Harwich, MA, on Cape Cod for several years in the 1970s. Chris Pearsall, as a child, attended Holy Trinity Parish, as did a number of other victims who were sexually abused by Fr. James Nickel, SS.CC at the parish and on trips to St. Francis de Sales Parish, Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island, the Bahamas, and several other States and cities. Fr. Nickel’s religious order, the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, and the Diocese of Fall River, MA, recently found all of the men’s accounts of having been sexually abused as children credible, and settled eight (8) cases for $880,000.00