CHICAGO (IL)
Press TV (Iran)
Thousands of pages of documents showing sexual abuse of children by Chicago priests are set to go public on Tuesday, a report says.
The Archdiocese of Chicago handed over last week more than 6,000 pages of documents to victims’ attorneys, who said they will show the archdiocese concealed abuse for decades.
The attorneys said some priests were even moved to new parishes where they molested again.
The Washington Post reports that the new disclosure will involve 30 priests of the archdiocese, one of the largest and most influential in the US.
The Roman Catholic Church has been under harsh criticism in recent years for its failure to report child sex abuse, which mostly occurred before 1988 and 1996, to authorities.
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