SCRANTON (PA)
WNEP
May 20, 2019
By Dave Bohman
Time may be running out for some victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests because lawmakers are on the verge of killing a plan to give victims more time to sue for sex crimes.
Those men claim they were sexually abused in the 1970s by the same priest in Scranton, but that priest was not listed in a grand jury report released last year.
The three men we spoke with may not have their day in court, and they worry about pinning their hopes for justice on the diocese’s victim’s fund.
It is now Divine Mercy Parish in Scranton’s Minooka neighborhood. It was St. Joseph’s in the 1970s, and Fr. Michael Pulicare was its priest.
“When I was a little kid, he would kind of friend me. He would give me gifts and stuff like that,” said John Patchcoski.
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