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[Child victims partly to blame in priest sex-abuse cases, Syracuse bishop testified – Syracuse.com]

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Bishop Robert Cunningham is clarifying his views on victims who were abused as children by catholic priests.

The bishop released a long statement on Sunday, responding to an article on the front page of the Post-Standard with the headline: Bishop: Priests’ Victims Share Blame.

“Allow me to be clear: I in no way believe a child is responsible for being abused by any person,” Cunningham stated. “I also believe and have clearly stated that a priest who abuses a child is wrong as is any adult who takes advantage and harms a child.”

The defense comes in response to reporter John O’Brien’s review of a 2011 deposition, filed as part of a federal lawsuit accusing a priest in the Syracuse diocese of sexually abusing a man when he…