3 Named to Archdiocese's Sex-Abuse Panel

By David O'Reilly
Philadelphia Inquirer
April 12, 2012

http://articles.philly.com/2012-04-12/news/31331556_1_archdiocesan-review-board-child-abuse-unit-clergy-sexual-abuse

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has named three new members to its Archdiocesan Review Board, the 12-member panel that advises Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on issues related to allegations of clergy sexual abuse.

The appointees are:

Stacey Ginesin, a member of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Sexual Offender Assessment Board;

Bebe Kivitz, a lawyer and former prosecutor and former chief of the child-abuse unit in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office;

Robert L. Sadoff, a professor of forensic psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Review Board was established in 2003, about a year after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted a pair of codes requiring all dioceses to remove from ministry any priest credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor.

Those codes, known as the Essential Norms and the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, were created after revelations of widespread sex abuse and cover-up in the Archdiocese of Boston led to similar revelations in many other dioceses.

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