PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Reuters
By Dave Warner
PHILADELPHIA | Sat Feb 11, 2012
(Reuters) – A full autopsy for Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, a key witness in a Catholic Church sex abuse trial who died last month, is unwarranted, the coroner examining the death said on Saturday.
Bevilacqua, the retired archbishop of Philadelphia, died at age 88 on January 31, the day after a judge ruled he was competent to testify in an upcoming sex abuse trial involving clerics and a schoolteacher.
Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told reporters on Friday she had asked Coroner Walter Hofman to make a determination about the death, noting that it had come soon after the judge’s ruling.
Hofman told Reuters that he had spoken to Bevilacqua’s doctor the night of his death “and we felt very confident that this was not anything we need to look into further.”
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