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Posted by Peter Isely on February 21, 2013
When Timothy Dolan was appointed to run the Archdiocese of New York in 2010, he expediently left behind him a Milwaukee Archdiocese on the verge of bankruptcy for fraudulently concealing and transferring scores of known clerical child sex offenders.
Finally, ten years after coming to Milwaukee and failing to resolve the sex abuse crisis here, Dolan is under oath today in a deposition for the Milwaukee Federal Bankruptcy Court. In it, Dolan is going to hopefully have to answer many disturbing and detailed questions about how handled abusive clerics, their victims, and the tens of millions of dollars he transferred and took off the books before the archdiocese declared the bankruptcy.
Since the bankruptcy filing and following the blueprint and blessing left by Dolan before going to New York, church attorneys have launched an unprecedented legal attack on victims, attempting over the last two years to do little else than throw out every single case filed by victims and, in hearing tomorrow, claiming that the 10 million dollars the church has spent on the sex abuse bankruptcy has gone entirely into the pockets of lawyers and consultants. There is no money left, they now claim, to provide any restitution for victims.
It is absolutely essential that Dolan’s deposition is not placed under court seal at the request of church lawyers. In fact, Dolan himself should insist that his testimony be made public. The 570 victims of priest sex offenders who filed cases, Catholics of the Milwaukee Archdiocese, and the public deserve to read and see Dolan’s testimony.
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