SALINAS (CA)
Monterey Herald
By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY
Herald Salinas Bureaumontereyherald.com
March 4, 2012
A second man has reportedly come forward alleging sexual abuse by a priest at Palma High School, but details of both of the claims could remain out of the public eye.
Southern California attorney Mike Reck confirmed Friday that the second man contacted him after The Herald reported an initial claim involving the Rev. Gerald Funcheon, who was a chaplain and teacher at Palma from 1984-85.
Reck said he is about to file the first man’s claim, and will likely file another on behalf of the second man, in the bankruptcy case of the Irish Christian Brothers and the Christian Brothers Institute in New York. The two jointly filed Chapter 11 last year in the wake of mounting sex abuse allegations against its brothers.
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