New files reveal decades of abuse in Los Angeles Catholic churches

[trotsky]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/los-angeles-catholic-church-sex-abuse-files-released-article-1.1414495

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of pages of secret church files released Wednesday shed light on the troublesome careers of a dozen religious order priests, brothers and nuns accused of sexually abusing children while working in the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese.

The files include one case of a priest who later admitted to having sexual contact with more than 100 boys while serving in several Southern California parishes for years.

The papers, which were released under the terms of a $660 million settlement agreement reached in 2007, are the first glimpse at what religious orders knew about the envoys they posted in Roman Catholic schools and parishes around the Los Angeles area. The archdiocese itself released thousands of pages under court order this year for its own priests who were accused of sexual abuse, but the full picture of sex abuse in Los Angeles remained elusive without the religious orders' records.

I can tell you one thing: if the new pope was serious about change, he'd open up the records for ALL abusers EVERYWHERE, not just for the ones they are being court-ordered to. That of course is just my opinion.

[dimbear]

1. This is getting good play on NPR and local radio here. It's getting harder and harder

to get much shock value out of an RCC sex scandal, but there's still some mileage left.