LOS ANGELES (CA)
WSAU
Friday, February 01, 2013
By Brandon Lowrey
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Catholic Church is withholding documents that could shed more light on sexual abuse by priests, a victims’ group said on Friday, a day after the Los Angeles archdiocese released 12,000 pages of files on clergy accused of molesting children.
Representatives for the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, also said they were not content with the punishments of two top clergymen linked to efforts to conceal the abuse from authorities, calling the move “window dressing.”
After years of legal battles, the archdiocese made public 124 personnel files on Thursday that were part of a 2007 civil court settlement with more than 500 child sex abuse victims in the biggest such agreement of its kind in the country.
Victims’ groups said they believed that the archdiocese was still sitting on more files that could implicate priests and other officials.
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