CHARLESTON (SC)
WCIV
August 27, 2018
By Anne Emerson
Instructions from the Vatican detail how church officials should handle allegations of sexual abuse.
ABC News 4 learned more about these instructions when it was included as evidence in a new lawsuit here filed against the Catholic Diocese of Charleston.
The lawsuit accuses former Charleston Priest Fredrick Hopwood of sexually abusing a young boy.
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