BOSTON (MA)
WGBH News
November 21, 2018
By Tori Bedford
[LISTEN: Healey On Sexual Misconduct In The Catholic Church]
Attorney General Maura Healey said she is “actively reviewing” the existing policies and procedures that surround the reporting of cases of sexual misconduct after several Catholic advocacy groups have called on her office to investigate the personnel records of all Massachusetts archdioceses.
“We’ve been in touch with the archdiocese, we’ve been in touch with the district attorney’s offices,” Healey said during an interview with Boston Public Radio Tuesday. She later said, “I want to make sure that there are answers, and that there is accountability. … We cannot allow that kind of conduct to continue, and the coverup, and the hiding, and the failure to deal with this.”
Activist groups, including Catholic Democrats and Voice of the Faithful, are calling for an update to the 2003 investigation into priest sex abuse and a full investigation of dioceses in Fall River, Worcester and Springfield.
Healey stated that “any report or allegation of abuse will be thoroughly investigated and addressed, either by my office or by another office.”
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