71.   More alleged abuse victims of Massachusetts priest come forward,

72.   Neither Cleiren nor Oosterman gave any quantitative figures on rape or sexual abuse victims.

73.   Prosecutors said she was an abuse victim who was browbeaten into recanting her story.

74.   Several dioceses, including Santa Rosa and the Archdiocese of New Orleans, have also paid counseling costs for abuse victims.

75.   That characterization outraged sex abuse victims and their lawyers.

76.   Stratton said said his six-month investigation and report should provide an adequate basis for compensation to abuse victims.

77.   The Archdiocese of Boston will provide more services to sexual abuse victims and consider other reforms suggested by parishioners, a spokeswoman said.

78.   The Archdiocese of New York is releasing sex abuse victims from any promises of confidentiality they made as part of civil settlements, the Westchester district attorney said Wednesday.

79.   The law has provoked an outcry among human rights groups and relatives of abuse victims.

80.   The priest joined the breakaway Independent Catholic Church and had spent the last decade running a support group for clergy abuse victims.