CALIFORNIA
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
By Christina Villacorte, Staff Writer
dailynews.com
Posted: 10/19/2012
Five years after promising to do so, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will hand over the confidential personnel files of about 200 priests accused of sexual abuse and child molestation to a judge in December.
Those documents – with the names of innocent individuals redacted – will ultimately be made public under the Archdiocese’s record $660 million settlement in 2007 to 508 people who said they were victims.
“I’m cautiously optimistic,” said Joelle Casteix, Western regional director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
“I’m very encouraged that the judge has laid down a concrete schedule but, at the same time, I and other survivors will remain vigilant about holding the archdiocese to account.”
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