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ROME (CBS) – The next pope will have to address a sex abuse crisis that in parts of the world is only now coming to light. It’s one reason Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s name is now so often on the “short list.”
But as Lisa Hughes explains from Rome, a national victims’ support group says the Archbishop of Boston is the wrong choice.
David Clohessy was just a little boy when he says his parish priest abused him and his three siblings. Now, as director of the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests or “SNAP”, he’s working to protect children from predators.
“Even now within the church, they’re exposed and they’re suspended after the fourth allegation or the fourteenth allegation not the first,” says Clohessy.
Clohessy says they are not hopeful that a new pope will help change things. In fact, he’s worried excitement about the new pope, the hope he’ll take a hard line against abusers, will make people complacent.
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