CDOW records reveal decades of abuse, cover-up

WILMINGTON (DE)
WDEL

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Shocking documents revealing decades of abuse covered up by the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington are now a part of the public record, as required by a recent settlement with survivors.

The accounts are heart-breaking.

“Victims who have killed themselves; boys who were taken to sex orgies and given drugs, who fear that they have AIDS,” says Anne Barrett Doyle of BishopAccountability.org who’s asking Catholics and everyone to read them online.

The archive holds at least 30-thousand pages, and Doyle says many are missing. She says it’s one of the only collections revealing that the men who masterminded the cover-up are still in power at the Catholic Dicoese of Wilmington.

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