SOUTH CAROLINA
Post and Courier
Christina Elmore
Two victims of childhood sexual abuse renewed calls Tuesday for the Catholic Diocese of Charleston to publish a list of priests accused of misconduct with minors.
The local call came on the heels of recent litigation alleging that a man was left out of a 2007 class-action suit against the diocese and the release earlier this month of 77 names by the Archdiocese of Seattle.
The list of priests and other clergy represents those who have lived or served in western Washington since the 1920s and “for whom allegations of sexual abuse of a minor have been admitted, established or determined to be credible,” according to The Associated Press.
The Charleston diocese told The Post and Courier in 2014 that 32 priests are alleged to have abused minors in its jurisdiction since 1950, but the priests were never publicly identified by the church.
Standing a stone’s throw from the church’s waterfront property on West Ashley’s Orange Grove Road, two abuse victims said the release of the names is both necessary and long overdue.
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