ST. LOUIS (MO)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Archbishop wants to give less info to victim
Carlson’s lawyers will try tomorrow to limit judge’s ruling
Case involves convicted predator priest who abused in 2000
Catholic officials have been ordered to turn over 20 years of records
The documents would cover child sex abuse allegations vs. all church employees
For immediate release: Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013
For more information: David Clohessy of St. Louis, SNAP Director (314) 566-9790 cell, SNAPclohessy@aol.com
St. Louis’ Catholic archbishop has been ordered to turn over information about every archdiocesan employee who has been accused of child sex crimes going back two decades.
Tomorrow, lawyers for the archbishop will try to severely restrict that order and limit the information they must provide to the alleged victim of a convicted St. Louis predator priest.
The case involves Fr. Joseph D. Ross, who allegedly molested a girl at an inner city parish in 2000. In 1988, Ross pled guilty to sexually assaulting an 11 year old boy during confession. Despite that conviction, Catholic officials quietly put Ross back on the job but told no one about his crimes.
In May, a St. Louis city judge ordered Catholic officials to turn over records about 20 years of child allegations of sexual abuse by employees of the archdiocese.
Lawyers for Archbishop Robert Carlson want Judge Robert Dierker to reconsider his order. They say they should be forced to provide records for a shorter period of time, only about alleged child sex crimes, only about accused priests (not bishops, seminarians, brothers, nuns, teachers and other employees), and only records that have already been made public through criminal or civil court filings.
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