MISSOURI
CNN
September 13, 2019
By Daniel Burke
Cases date from 1945 to present day
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Friday said he is referring 12 cases of alleged sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy to local authorities for possible prosecution.
The announcement came as Schmitt released a 185-page report detailing his review of 2,000 priests’ personnel files, dating from 1945 to the present day.
The attorney general’s office said it reviewed the records of more than 300 deacons, seminarians and religious women who served in the state’s four Roman Catholic dioceses: the Archdiocese of St. Louis, the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau and the Diocese of Jefferson City.
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