MILWAUKEE (WI)
San Francisco Chronicle

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Archdiocese of Milwaukee plans to release thousands of pages of documents related to child sexual abuse by its priests on Monday. Here is a look at key dates in the scandal drawn from the archives of The Associated Press:

1940s — Edmund Haen abuses a child while serving at St. Lawrence Church, the priest’s first parish. The child, who became a priest himself for a time, tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the abuse in 2002.

1972 — Haen abruptly transfers from a West Bend parish that he founded in 1955 to one in Mequon. Thirty years later, a West Bend businessman tells a newspaper there that he was molested by Haen as a child.

1973 — Siegfried Widera is convicted of sexual misconduct with a boy and placed on three years of probation. Within two years, another allegation is…