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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Timothy Cardinal Dolan was questioned Wednesday in a deposition about child sex abuse by priests.
The New York Times reported the New York archbishop was questioned for hours by attorneys representing hundreds of people who said they were sexually abused by priest in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Dolan was the archbishop there for seven years until moving to New York in 2009.
The attorneys were trying to determine whether Dolan tried to stand in the way of lawsuits against the archdiocese and priests when he was Milwaukee archbishop, and whether he kept church assets from people who said they were sex abuse victims, the newspaper reported.
New York Archdiocese spokesman Joseph Zwilling released a statement to CBS 2′s Tony Aiello about the deposition.
“Today Cardinal Dolan had the long-awaited opportunity to talk about his decision nine years ago in Milwaukee to publicize the names of priests who had abused children and how he responded to the tragedy of past clergy sexual abuse of minors, during the time he was privileged to serve as Archbishop of Milwaukee,” the statement said.
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