CHEYENNE (WY)
Wyoming Public Media
August 24, 2018
By Kamila Kudelska
The Cheyenne Police Department is seeking information from any victims or witnesses of sex abuse crimes related to any church official.
It comes after a release from the Roman Catholic Diocese in Cheyenne with new information found in a sex abuse case involving Bishop-Emeritus Joseph Hart between the 1970s through the 1990s. The department has since re-opened that case which has been closed for 16 years.
The announcement comes just a week after a Pennsylvania grand jury released a report accusing 300 priests of sexually abusing over 1,000 victims across the state.
Spokesman officer Kevin Malatesta said this has nothing to do with the Pennsylvania case but it does speak to the nature of what is going on around the country.
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