ERIE (PA)
GoErie.com
September 15, 2018
Funds paid for law firm to conduct investigation that led to list of accused priests and laypeople.
Firm also updated child-protection policy. No parish funds used, bishop says.
The Catholic Diocese of Erie’s unprecedented internal investigation of clergy sexual abuse has come at a large cost: $4 million.
Erie Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico said that is how much the 13-county diocese has spent to have a law firm investigate the claims of abuse, going back to the 1940s, as well as revise the diocese’s child-protection policy and represent the diocese during the two-year statewide grand jury probe that ended with the release of the sweeping 884-page report on Aug. 14.
The $4 million is separate from the $750,000 the diocese said it has given to abuse victims over the past several decades.
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