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Lez Get Real
Earlier this week we reported on an LA Times two part feature article on Cardinal Roger Mahony’s mishandling of the child sex abuse scandal in Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
The article paints the picture of a man who had ambitious plans for the archdiocese and his legacy, but hid the abuse of children, because he saw his greater agenda would be endangered by the revelation of the molestation scandal… A man who was and is more worried about that legacy, then he was about justice and the safety of children.
Mahony went as far as to keep law enforcement uninvolved. Instead of turning priests accused of abuse over to the police for prosecution, Mahony would, instead, send them to out of state “treatment centers” he knew would keep a secret. And under his administration of the LA Archdiocese, abuse victims were discouraged from contacting the authorities.
All the while Mahony kept detailed documentation and files of the abuse cases safely locked in his desk.
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