A new lawsuit accuses a former priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester of abusing several children on multiple occasions in the 1980s. The suit was filed under New York’s Child Victims Act. It accuses Joseph Larrabee of grooming children and then abusing them while employed at several different parishes in the region. Attorny […]
A federal bankruptcy court has chosen a committee of nine people, survivors of clergy abuse among them, to represent unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy of Rochester’s Roman Catholic Diocese. It will be the committee’s job to represent all the people owned money by the diocese, and that includes plaintiffs who have filed suit charging they […]
Facing more than 50 lawsuits accusing clergy and staff of sexual abuse, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. That limits the damage the diocese will face from plaintiffs in those lawsuits, filed under New York’s Child Victims Act. Bishop Salvatore Matano says the bankruptcy covers only the diocese, […]