MOOSIC (PA)
WNEP 16 ABC
August 28, 2019
By Dave Bohman
SCRANTON, Pa. — A lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of four men who claim abuse at the hands of a former priest in the Diocese of Scranton.
The lawsuit names the Diocese of Scranton, Former Bishop James Timlin, and current Bishop Joseph Bambera.
Three of the men spoke out about the alleged sexual assaults against them. The men claiming to be victims say they are not after money.
At a news conference in downtown Scranton, they said they want to hold the diocese responsible for the suffering they say they endured as teenagers at the hands of Fr. Michael Pulicare.
Pulicare was the priest at what was St. Joseph’s Parish in the Minooka section of Scranton in the 1970s. Pulicare died in 1999.
In a grand jury report released last year, the state attorney general did not list Fr. Pulicare among the hundreds of accused priests.
Earlier this year, the Diocese of Scranton decided that people claiming to be victims of Fr. Pulicare are eligible to receive money from a diocese settlement fund.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.