DENVER (CO)
CBS 4 News
Nov. 13, 2019
By Rick Sallinger
An attorney who represents victims of sex abuse by Catholic priests called on Colorado legislators to drop the statute of limitations on such crimes on Wednesday. Jeff Anderson also presented names and photos of around 100 priests who served in Colorado who have been accused sex abuse.
One name on the list was now-former Jesuit Father Patrick O’Liddy. CBS4 featured him in a news story several years ago.
“Hi Rick Sallinger from Channel 4. We’d like to talk to you about why you left the priesthood.”
In 2002, he was convicted of sexting with a minor. His picture is now on a board that was presented at a news conference in Denver. Several who said they were victims from different priests stood by as Anderson spoke.
“If a law would pass it would help survivors like Joe McGee who sign.d agreements for $10,000.”
McGee was about 9 years old in Iliff, Colorado when he says he was abused. Father John Francis Stein was later convicted of taking indecent liberties with another minor boy.
“I am sorry to say my sex education comes from a Catholic priest at the hand of a Catholic priest,” he told CBS4.
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