FERNDALE (MI)
Church Militant
March 14, 2019
Lansing – An abuse survivor has issued a public letter to Michigan Bp. Earl Boyea urging that he resign over his mishandling of clerical abuse cases.
“You must inform the public about your relationship with Egan and Inglot,” the letter begins, “why you permitted both to be in charge of or near athletic men whom they would find attractive, and why the diocese attacked and discredited men who came forward.”
The young man, who has asked to remain anonymous, was a victim of Fr. Pat Egan, who was stripped of his faculties in Sept. 2018 after a credible allegation of “inappropriate sexual behavior with an adult male,” according to the diocese’s statement.
The diocese left out the significant fact that Boyea had first learned of the allegation in 2014 but had taken no action to remove the priest from ministry for four years.
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