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Lake County News-Sun
The Archdiocese of Chicago has released thousands of pages of internal documents pertaining to how it dealt with allegations of child sexual abuse by 36 priests going back decades.
The archdiocese posted the documents on its website Thursday. They’re in addition to records related to 32 other abusive priests that it released as part of a legal settlement in January, when the archdiocese revealed it had concealed the abuse for decades.
Together with documents released in January, the new files represent the archdiocese’s fullest public accounting of 68 priests, who church officials found abused at least 352 children since 1950, according to the Chicago Tribune. Of those 68, two had no documents released; Rev. Daniel J. McCormack and Rev. Edward J. Maloney, are not included, “due to ongoing processes that do not permit release,” according to the Archdiocese.
Based on a comparison, these additional files pertain to priests already named in the January release. No new priests were named in Thursday’s documents.
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