CHICAGO (IL)
KERA
By MARK MEMMOTT
Originally published on Tue January 21, 2014
Thousands of pages of what were once secret church documents related to the way the Archdiocese of Chicago dealt with 30 priests who it believes abused children in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s are now online.
They give “an unprecedented and gut-wrenching look at how the Archdiocese of Chicago for years failed to protect children from abusive priests,” writes the Chicago Tribune.
They also “provide new details and insights into how the nation’s third-largest archdiocese quietly shuttled accused priests from parish to parish and failed to notify police of child abuse allegations,” the Tribune adds.
The papers “cover only 30 of the at least 65 clergy for whom the archdiocese says it has substantiated claims of child abuse,” The Associated Press says.
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