DENVER (CO)
La Junta Tribune-Democrat
By Robert Boczkiewicz
https://www.lajuntatribunedemocrat.com/story/news/2020/12/06/investigator-pueblo-diocese-improves-process-reporting-misconduct-child-sex-abuse-catholic-church/3850402001/
An investigator of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests said the Pueblo Diocese has set up systems to significantly improve its handling of reports of misconduct.
Investigator Bob Troyer, a former federal prosecutor, also said the systems, which are new, are yet untested.
Troyer worked last year and this year for the Colorado Attorney General’s Office to delve into hundreds of cases of sexual assaults by priests in the state’s three dioceses: Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver.
In a new report last week, Troyer said at least 59 children were sexually abused by 23 priests from 1950 to 1999 in the Pueblo Diocese, which stretches across southern Colorado. It includes Otero, Crowley and Bent counties.
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