Victims to Continue Sexual Abuse Claims Despite Buffalo Diocese Bankruptcy, Lawyer Says

By Tom Mcparland
Law.com/New York Law Journal
March 03, 2020

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Worshipers pray at St. Louis Raman Catholic Church, in Buffalo, N.Y. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo filed for bankruptcy protection last week, taking another major step in its effort to recover from a clergy misconduct scandal that’s been the basis for hundreds of lawsuits, Vatican intervention and resignation of its bishop. Photo by Jeffrey T. Barnes

The diocese, a spokeswoman emphasized, was reorganizing, not liquidating, and survivors would be a "No. 1 priority" among its creditors.

The Diocese of Buffalo’s decision last week to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection was expected to complicate, but not foreclose, efforts to recover on behalf of alleged victims of child sexual abuse, an attorney for some of the accusers said Tuesday.