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	Anna Maria Head on Anti-Abuse Board Telegram & Gazette [Paxton MA] June 15, 2005 Anna Maria College President William D. McGarry has been named to the National Review Board, a group that monitors diocesan efforts to protect minors from sexual abuse by church personnel, according to the Catholic News Service. Mr. McGarry and three others were named to three-year terms on the panel by Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Mr. McGarry became president of Anna Maria in 1999 and pushed for the recently established center for the prevention of child sexual abuse and abduction and elderly abuse. The review board was established by the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The bishops adopted the charter in June 2002 in response to the then-growing national church crisis of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests. The board's responsibilities are to oversee annual reports on diocesan compliance with the terms of the charter and to commission and oversee two major studies, one on the nature and scope of the abuse and another on its context and causes.
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