CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Times

Molestation allegations against Lawrence Sandstrom go back to the 1960s. His file will be among those released this summer by a host of independent Catholic orders.

By Victoria Kim and Harriet Ryan
July 6, 2013

The preschooler’s hair was falling out in clumps. He had stopped playing with other children and barely spoke to his teachers. He woke screaming each night, and during the day clung to his mother.

What’s wrong, she asked again and again. Finally, he told her: His big brother, adopted seven years earlier from the Maryvale Catholic orphanage in Rosemead, was molesting him. Devastated, she rushed the older boy to a therapist’s office, where he offered a harrowing explanation.

“He said that Brother Larry had done it to him at Maryvale — him and other children,” his mother recalled years later.

The man he named was Lawrence Sandstrom, a brother…