LOS ANGELES (CA)
Courthouse News Service
By IULIA FILIP
LOS ANGELES (CN) – Catholic bishops “facilitated the sexual molestation of children by engaging in the international trafficking of known child molesting priests,” alleged victims of clerical abuse claim in court.
The latest lawsuit alleging a decades-long conspiracy to facilitate and cover up priests’ sexual abuse of children was filed Tuesday in Superior Court, as the Catholic Church’s conclave met to elect the new pope, who was chosen on Wednesday.
The 18-page complaint names names, including former Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, Bishop Thomas Curry, and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, but the only defendants are Defendant Does 1 through 1,000, church officials and dioceses that allegedly participated in the shuffling of predatory priests from parish to parish, including across the U.S.-Mexico border.
The four Juan Doe plaintiffs claim they were sexually abused by a priest in Los Angeles in the 1980s.
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