ST. LOUIS (MO)
Berger’s Beat
…Last month, Judge Robert Dierker re-affirmed his order that Archbishop Robert Carlson give years of records of child sex allegations against priests and lay employees to attorney Ken Chackes, who represents most such victims here. Carlson has ousted Greensfelder lawyers from the case and replaced them with Colorado attorney Martin Nussbaum. The case centers on alleged child sex crimes committed by Fr. Joseph Ross at St. Cronan’s parish as recently as 2000. Nussbaum helped Catholic officials in Cardinal Bernard Law’s scandal-ridden Boston Archdiocese. He also represented Republican Pastor Ted Haggard’s church after the preacher resigned as head of the National Association of Evangelicals when an escort claimed he has been having a a sexual relationship with the pastor for three years. . .
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