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	Confidential Church Documents Released in Settlement Letters Show Leaders Knew about Sexual Abuse, Moved Priest TheDenverChannel July 2, 2008 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/16775817/detail.html [with video] DENVER — Details of a sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church have been made public as part of a multimillion dollar settlement with the victims. The families accusing former priest Harold White of sex abuse released dozens of letters and notes, showing the church knew about the sexual abuse allegations spanning his 40-year career, and still allowed White to minister. One letter in the file, dated 1965, states "because of 'boy troubles,' I felt it best to get Father Robert White out of Colorado Springs immediately." In other letters from the Archdiocese of Denver, church leaders wrote that White had admitted to approaching boys and touching them. Yet, records show White continued in the ministry, although he was instructed not to work with young boys. Records show that as the complaints and allegations continued, White was transferred from parish to parish all over Colorado. The Archdiocese of Denver issued a statement saying these decisions were made more than a quarter of a century ago, and that under current policy, this would not happen again. White was not removed from the ministry until 2004. He and the people who made those decisions have since died.
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