Column: Rahm Emanuel owns Chicago’s school sexual abuse scandal

CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Tribune

June 5, 2018

By John Kass

Rahm Emanuel isn’t bishop of Chicago. He’s the mayor of Chicago, for now.

But the shocking sexual abuse scandal at his Chicago Public Schools uncovered by the Tribune brings immediately to mind the sex scandals of the Roman Catholic Church.

Church leaders actively engaged in a cover-up over decades. The CPS abuse scandal seems more about the cost of bureaucratic indifference.

But the outcomes are terribly similar, aren’t they?

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