Church releasing sex abuse files on Chicago clergy

[cbayer]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/15/church-sex-abuse-chicago/4489239/

Tammy Webber, Associated Press 9:45 a.m. EST January 15, 2014


Cardinal Francis George responds to allegations of sexual abuse by Chicago priest Rev. Daniel McCormack during a news conference in 2006.
(Photo: M. Spencer Green, AP)

CHICAGO (AP) — The Archdiocese of Chicago on Wednesday will hand over thousands of pages documenting clergy sex abuse allegations to victims' attorneys who have fought for years to hold the Catholic Church accountable for its handling of such claims.

The files on the nation's third-largest archdiocese will include complaints, personnel documents and other files for about 30 priests with substantiated abuse allegations.

Victims' attorneys next week will make public the documents detailing allegations of crimes concealed and priests assigned to positions that allowed them to continue molesting children.

Disclosures in other U.S. dioceses in recent years have showed how the church shielded priests and failed to report child sex abuse to authorities.

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[DonViejo]

1. No, no, this cannot be true....

all the DU'ers that hate the Roman Church have said that the abuse is being covered up and will never be revealed or released. Obviously USA Today is making up this story.

[cbayer]

2. To be fair, it didn't come easy.

But they said some of the right things today.

[skepticscott]

5. Sheesh, anybody can SAY the "right" things

especially when you're paying a PR firm bigs bucks to make it up for you. It helps to have a compliant and gullible press and public, too. Once you've told them what they desperately want to hear, that's all they care about...they won't bother to wonder if you really meant it.

[skepticscott]

4. If there hadn't been a decades long cover-up

by a Catholic Church more concerned about protecting child rapists and its reputation than about protecting children, then there would be nothing left to "release" next week, now would there?

But yes, let's all congratulate the RCC instead for doing the right thing decades late, and even then, only when forced to.

[pinto]

3. A much needed response from the church hierarchy. (nt)