Thursday, January 23, 2014

Cardinal Francis George Concealed Decades of Child Sex Abuse


Thousands of pages of internal documents posted online today, released through settlements between attorneys for the archdiocese and victims. 

In these documents describe how priests for decades were moved from parish to parish while the archdiocese hid the priests histories from the patrons, most of the time with approval from the late Cardinals John Cody and Joseph Bernardin.

“The issue is not when the abuse happened; the issue is what they did once it was reported,” said Chicago attorney Marc Pearlman, he has represented about 200 victims of clergy abuse in the Chicago area .... http://www.bobtuskin.com