ATLANTA (GA)
CNN
September 12, 2018
By Rosa Flores and Kevin Conlon
[With Video.]
Cheyenne, Wyoming – The Catholic Church is facing a reckoning today in large part due to a damning Pennsylvania grand jury investigation released last month.
But more than a year before that bombshell report dropped, another reckoning was already taking place thousands of miles away.
Joseph Hart, the retired longtime bishop of Cheyenne, is today being investigated for allegedly sexually abusing children when he was the highest ranking Catholic in the state of Wyoming, according to the diocese he has served since 1976.
Should Hart be charged, it will be the first time in US history that a bishop is prosecuted for sexual abuse. And if that happens, it will be because of the man who holds his old job.
“I take no pleasure in that at all,” said Steven Biegler, the Bishop of Cheyenne. “I think we need to do what’s right.”
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