KANSAS CITY (MO)
Kansas City Business Journal
Staff
Kansas City Business Journal
The diocese received complaints for years about Monsignor Thomas O’Brien’s alcohol use and heard concerns about possible sexual misconduct but did nothing, a church official testified Monday, according to The Kansas City Star.
The Rev. Pat Rush also said the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese didn’t alert parishioners and instead recommended O’Brien be made chaplain for the Kansas City Police Department in 1978, the report said.
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