CHICAGO (IL)
Daily Herald
By Christopher Placek
Archdiocese of Chicago officials say they will release more documents later this year that detail instances of child sex abuse by 35 priests that go back decades.
The files represent about 25 percent of the 349 abuse cases — going back to the early 1950s — that the archdiocese says are “substantiated” allegations of child sexual abuse.
Information on the other 75 percent of the cases — comprising some 6,000 pages of internal communications regarding 30 abusive priests — was publicly released in January.
On Friday, archdiocese officials told the Daily Herald Editorial Board they will release the additional documents voluntarily and “in the name of transparency,” once information has been redacted that could possibly harm the victims.
“We will do all that’s possible that this (abuse) will never happen again,” said Bishop Francis Kane, the archdiocese’s vicar general. “I am horrified by the abuse that has occurred. I had the terrible responsibility of looking through so many of these files.
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