KANSAS CITY (MO)
KMBZ
Bishop Robert Finn goes to trial tomorrow. The Jackson County prosecutor’s office announced the criminal case has been reset from it’s original September 24th date.
Finn and the Kansas City-St Joseph Diocese are accused of failing to report suspected child abuse based on lewd photographs of children found on Father Shawn Ratigan’s laptop. Rebecca Randles represents several of the families in a civil case. She tells KMBZ a bench trial is risky.
“Sometimes it favors the prosecution and sometimes it favors the defendant. It kind of depends on what the parties want to get out of the trial, as to whether you choose to do a jury trial or you choose to do a bench trial.”
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