NEW YORK
Noaker Law Firm
By Attorney Patrick Noaker
(New York, NY – Friday, October 7, 2016) At a press conference in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Sexual Abuse attorneys along with survivors of sexual abuse warned that Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s recently proposed “Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program” for those who have survived abuse by priests or deacons of the archdiocese, may be a bait-and-switch that could re-victimize survivors of abuse.
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Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests, national President, David Clohessy, urged survivors to use caution and to work with an experienced attorney before participating in Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s new sexual abuse survivor compensation plan. “We are urging survivors to think long and hard before they march down to the Church headquarters under this plan” said Clohessy. Clohessy also proposed that Cardinal Dolan set up a whistleblower fund for current or former employees of the Archdiocese who report suspected child sexual abuse.
“It appears that Cardinal Dolan’s compensation plan is the same bait-and-switch that he used in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee,” said Minneapolis attorney Patrick Noaker. Noaker outlined then, Archbishop Dolan’s Milwaukee plan that was the subject of dozens of claims of fraud by survivors who participated the Archdiocese of Milwaukee mediation process. Noaker specifically referred to the case of John Doe, Claimant A-49, where a survivor of sexual abuse by Fr. David Hanser sought to have the mediated settlement set aside because the Archdiocese of Milwaukee had fraudulently induced him to settle by giving him misleading information about when the Archdiocese first received reports of abuse by Fr. Hanser. See also Claimant A-282.
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