CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Sun-Times
Joseph Bennett
Norbert Maday
Daniel McCormack
BY JON SEIDEL Staff Reporter January 21, 2014
The Archdiocese of Chicago swiftly pointed out Tuesday that the vast majority of sexual abuse allegations leveled in newly released records occurred years, even decades ago.
But those records show Cardinal Francis George testified in 2008 about the archdiocese’s handling under his leadership of sexual abuse allegations against the the Reverends Joseph Bennett, Norbert Maday and Daniel McCormack.
“What upsets me is the record of abuse,” George said in a 2008 deposition. “No matter when it happened.”
The records were released by a pair of attorneys whose clients have sued the archdiocese over abuse allegations and won settlements.
The archdiocese said in a written statement that 95 percent of the cases mentioned in the documents occurred before 1988. It said not one priest with a substantiated allegation of sexual abuse of a minor is serving in its ministry today.
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