By Susan Abram
LA Daily News
July 15, 2007
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6384320
Lawyers representing victims of sexual abuse released new information Sunday detailing alleged misconduct by a handful of clergy members, including a nun who slapped a girl after she accused a priest of molesting her.
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| Cardinal Roger Mahony faces a wall of cameras as he apologizes during a news conference following Sunday Mass and a day after the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay a record $660 million in a settlement with more than 500 victims Photo by Gene Blevins |
The document, designed to serve as an example of priest abuse within the Los Angeles Archdiocese, listed old and new information on eight priests. Seven of them had worked in the San Fernando, San Gabriel and Antelope valleys, as well as in Ventura County. All worked in Los Angeles County at one point.
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| One of the many victims Mary Grant talks to the media about the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay a record $660 million in a settlement with more than 500 victims Photo by Gene Blevins |
"This is a snapshot of the stories victims told and why the diocese wants to settle," said Katherine Freberg, an attorney whose law offices are representing 109 of the more than 500 people who say they were abused by priests and clergy.
"This is just a smattering of the information we could include," because the details were graphic, Freberg said.
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| Cardinal Roger Mahony faces a wall of cameras as he apologizes during a news conference following Sunday Mass and a day after the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay a record $660 million in a settlement with more than 500 victims Photo by Gene Blevins |
In 2004, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles released the names of 211 priests and clergy accused of molesting children. Freberg's information is a result of diocese documents, police reports, and depositions taken from victims.
Freberg said her law office would hold a press conference today to formally release the report.
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