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Sunday Mercury
US prosecutors consider legal action against LA catholic church over paedophile priest James Robinson
May 13 2012 by Jonny Greatrex, Sunday Mercury
AMERICAN prosecutors are considering legal action against the Los Angeles Catholic Church – following a Sunday Mercury exclusive proving bishops knew a paedophile priest shipped to the States had a shameful past.
Last week the Mercury revealed how Birmingham church leaders already knew Father James Robinson had an unwholesome realtionship with a man 25 years BEFORE he was jailed for 21 counts of sex abuse on boys.
Predatory priest Robinson, who worked at several churches in Coventry and Birmingham, fled to the US in 1985, days after the police were first alerted by a victim who had been abused when he was just a child.
Months later, the Birmingham Archdiocese wrote to its Californian counterpart, stating that the “immediate reason” Robinson was in America was because he had recently met again “a man with whom he had an unwholesome relationship about thirteen years ago”.
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