WILMINGTON (DE)
Newsworks
[with audio]
The victims advocate group BishopAccountability.org is posting thousands of documents, hand-written notes and other evidence of abuse by priests within the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington.
The release of documents is part of the non-monetary terms of the church’s settlement agreement with victims of abuse. The papers detail the effort to keep the pattern of abuse by numerous priests under wraps.
“This is a sad day for me,” says Matthias Conaty, who was a victim of priest abuse. “It’s sad because men who were supposed to be trusted abused children, and equally awful is the fact that men who were supervising those men found it more important to protect what they saw as the interest of the church and containment of scandal.”
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