Until this year, the two alleged victims of Gerald Miller had been unable to take legal action against the former priest who gave sermons in Altamont and the Hilltowns. The passage of the Child Victims Act has allowed them to move forward with this, said their attorney.

The headquarters of The Missionaries of La Salette are in Hartford, Connecticut, but the shrine has been in Altamont since 1924, when missionaries bought the old Kushaqua Hotel and turned it into a seminary.