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	Judge Appoints Pair to Oversee Sexual Abuse Payments ChallengerNKY [Burlington KY] February 20, 2006 http://www.challengernky.com/articles/2006/02/20/around_nky/doc43f5ed8a98de3018844962.txt BURLINGTON - A newspaper company executive and a retired federal judge have been appointed to oversee payments to victims of sexual abuse in the Diocese of Covington. William Burleigh, chairman of the board of the E.W. Scripps Co., and Thomas D. Lambros of Ashtabula, Ohio, former chief judge in the Northern District of Ohio, will be the special masters of the $85 million settlement fund. Special Judge John Potter appointed the pair Tuesday to sort through roughly 361 claims and decide who will receive how much money. Lambros, 76, served as a federal judge in northern Ohio from 1967 to 1995. For the last five of those years, he was chief judge, and the courthouse in Youngstown is named after him. Burleigh, who lives in Rabbit Hash, was one of the initial members of the National Review Board, a 13-member panel of lay Catholics that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops created in 2002 to implement their new policy on handling priest sexual abuse. The panel issued a study in 2004 portraying the U.S. Catholic Church as an institution in which thousands of young victims, mostly boys, were abused over the last half-century, and church leaders were either unable or unwilling to deal with the problem. Potter approved a settlement last month between the Covington Diocese and the victims. The settlement covers victims who claim they were molested over a 50 year period in a diocese that once included 57 counties across a broad section of Kentucky. E.W. Scripps Co. owns the Cincinnati Post, as well as 18 other newspapers around the country.
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