CHICAGO (IL)
Daily Herald
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Christopher Placek
Nearly a week after the Archdiocese of Chicago released child sex abuse files pertaining to 36 priests, victims’ attorneys are publicly questioning whether the release of the documents shed enough light on the decades-long scandal.
Attorneys Jeff Anderson and Marc Pearlman, who have represented hundreds of victims of priest sex abuse in Chicago and across the country, say they should have had input and oversight in the document review process, as they did when the first set of files relating to another 30 priests was released in January.
They now want incoming Archbishop Blase Cupich, who will be formally installed next week as Cardinal Francis George’s successor, to disclose the names of all priests who have been accused of child sexual abuse — whether the allegations were determined by the archdiocese to be credible.
“The whole story about the past has to be revealed, and until we and other outsiders who are professionals in this area are allowed to scrutinize all of the files of all the credibly accused offenders and all those accused, we can’t take any comfort in a partial disclosure,” Anderson said during a news conference at a downtown Chicago law office.
John O’Malley, the archdiocese’s special counsel for misconduct issues, said Tuesday it was an “outrageous and presumptuous” suggestion by the attorneys that they be able to see all those files.
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