ALBUQUERQUE (NM)
Albuquerque Journal

October 18, 2017

By Olivier Uyttebrouck and Maggie Shepard

[Note: The front page of the Albuquerque Journal showed excerpts from a document relating to each priest. The article includes summaries of the three priests whose files have been released: Jason Sigler, Sabine Griego, and Arthur Perrault. See also BishopAccountability.org’s database entries on Sigler, Griego, and Perrault.]

Nearly 1,000 pages of Archdiocese of Santa Fe court records were released to the public on Wednesday, including letters written showing that church leaders knew of allegations of sexual abuse against three priests long before the priests left or were barred from ministry.

The records, released by order of District Judge Alan Malott, mark the largest release of Archdiocese of Santa Fe records since alleged victims of clerical sexual abuse began filing lawsuits against the archdiocese in the early 1990s.

The records include a wide…