Diocese Pays $2 Million to Victim Forced by Fryburg Priest to Go to Confession After Sexual Abuse

Aly Delp

Aly Delp

Published March 27, 2019 1:36 am
Diocese Pays $2 Million to Victim Forced by Fryburg Priest to Go to Confession After Sexual Abuse

ERIE, Pa. (EYT) — The Erie Catholic Diocese has agreed to pay $2 million to settle claims with a man who was sexually abused as a minor by former Fryburg priest David Poulson.

(Photo by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography.)

Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represented the victim, announced the settlement during a press conference on Tuesday.

The victim was identified in court documents as “John Doe.”

Poulson abused “John Doe” on numerous occasions between 2002 and 2010 while he was serving at St. Michael’s Church in Fryburg, Clarion County, and St. Anthony of Padua Church in Cambridge Springs, Crawford County.

Poulson, who was

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