BOSTON (MA)
Boston Globe
October 11, 2018
By Travis Andersen
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley is expanding a review of sexual misconduct allegations at a Brighton seminary to include two other seminaries, and he’s bringing in a new team of investigators with no current ties to the Boston Archdiocese, he said Thursday.
O’Malley announced the developments in a lengthy statement.
Former US Attorney Donald K. Stern will lead a group of investigators from the firm of Yurko, Salvesen & Remz in a review of the allegations that surfaced over the summer regarding St. John’s Seminary, as well as a probe of Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary in Weston and Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Chestnut Hill.
The cardinal said he’s including the other seminaries in the review to meet “the generally expected levels of transparency and accountability.”
O’Malley also conceded that each member of the original group of outside investigators brought in to review the St. John’s allegations had ties to the seminary.
He said that “given the current challenges of confidence in Church leadership and institutions, the people of the Church and our civic community there may have been concerns regarding the objectivity and completeness of the committee’s findings.”
He said Yurko, Salvesen & Remz “does not have an existing relationship with any of the seminaries or the Archdiocese of Boston.”
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