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New York Daily News
BY KENNETH LOVETT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF
Updated: Thursday, October 6, 2016
ALBANY — Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Thursday announced a new program to compensate child sex abuse victims attacked by clergy, but some lawmakers and advocates say it doesn’t go nearly far enough.
It’s a good first step, they say, but its shortcomings will only galvanize the push for the passage of a law that makes it easier for New York survivors of abuse to sue their predators.
State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat and prime sponsor of the Child Victims Act, called Dolan’s program “a canny legal strategy to help reduce the archdiocese’s liability for decades of crimes and coverups.”
“By setting up its own sexual abuse compensation fund, I’m glad the archdiocese is taking responsibility for the untold number of crimes against New York kids committed by its clergy,” Hoylman said.
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