MILWAUKEE (WI)
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July 1, 2013, by Cary Docter

MILWAUKEE (WITI) – Thousands of pages of secret church documents and depositions were released on Monday, July 1st. They detail the Vatican’s role and the role of Milwaukee churches in priest sex abuse cases.

CLICK HERE to view all of the released documents

What will people find in reading these documents? Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki offered this summary in a blog posted in April.

The incidents of abuse date back 25, 50, even 80 years.

The vast majority of perpetrators were not known to the archdiocese until years after they committed the abuse.

Reports of abuse were often not brought to the archdiocese or civil authorities until decades after they occurred.