CINCINNATI (OH)
The Cincinnati Post
By Kevin Eigelbach
Post staff reporter
An attorney who once represented baseball player Pete Rose will chair a panel that will administer a $3 million fund for victims of sexual abuse by priests.
Robert Stachler, 73, represented Rose in a lawsuit he filed against Major League Baseball and former Commissioner Bart Giamatti in 1989.
The former University of Dayton linebacker has also represented the Cincinnati Bengals football team and other sports figures.
“I’d like to make whatever contribution I can to the cause. I think it’s a worthy cause,” Stachler said of the fund, which the Archdiocese of Cincinnati created in November when it pleaded no contest to five counts of failing to tell authorities about sexual abuse allegations against priests.
