KANSAS CITY (MO)
Courthouse News Service
By JOE HARRIS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CN) – A Jackson County judge refused to dismiss misdemeanor charges accusing the Kansas City Diocese and its bishop of shielding an abusive priest.
Bishop Robert Finn and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph are charged with failing to report suspected child abuse.
Prosecutors said Finn and the diocese are mandatory reporters of abuse under state law.
Defense attorneys claimed the law is unconstitutionally vague, and that Finn was not the diocese’s designated reporter.
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