KANSAS CITY (MO)
The Kansas City Star
[the judge’s order]
By MARK MORRIS
A judge overseeing a civil case against a Roman Catholic priest and the local diocese has formally ordered a victims advocacy group to turn over decades of information about its work.
In her written order filed this week, Jackson County Circuit Judge Ann Mesle directed the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests and its national director, David Clohessy, to produce records going back more than 20 years.
The written order elaborates on directions she gave from the bench at a hearing last week, when she heard arguments from lawyers representing the Rev. Michael Tierney and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to compel the production of such documents.
The records also would be available for use in four other cases pending against Tierney, who has denied any wrongdoing, and possibly in cases against other priests in the Kansas City area and in Clinton, Mo.
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