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  News Briefs: More Women Accuse Late Bishop of Abuse

NWA
July 15, 2010

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2010/jul/15/news-briefs-20100715/

More allegations of sexual abuse have been made against a former Erie Episcopal bishop after the current bishop publicly discussed the case this past weekend.

The current bishop, Sean Rowe, said in a statement Tuesday that five more women contacted him to say they had been molested by the late Bishop Donald Davis.

Rowe released a statement Sunday that was read in every parish in the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania saying that Davis had abused four girls. Davis served as bishop in Erie from 1974 until 1991. He died in 2007.

In a letter to the diocese, Rowe said that then-Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning had asked Davis to resign from the House of Bishops in 1994 after learning that Davis ...

Contact: stephanie.salter@tribstar.com

 
 

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