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 Cardinal Bernard F. Law: Protecting a Sinner? |
Boston, Massachusetts-Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard F. Law knew in September, 1984, according to an AP report read on FOX News, that a priest, John Geoghan, had been accused of child molestation.
The Cardinal, however, had simply transferred this errant priest to other Boston area parishes where the number of young boys he reportedly molested grew and now totals seventy-seven. Their charges against Father Geoghan are scheduled to be tried in September. |
Attempting to excuse himself for what had transpired in his diocese, Cardinal Law wrote in a diocese newspaper, The Pilot:
"Never was there an effort on my part to shift a problem from one place to the next."
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The New York Times reported yesterday that two other Roman Catholic communities in Massachusetts have experienced the rapes of minors in recent times. One case involved a former priest in the Fall River diocese with the number of youths he's said to have raped totaling 28 on forty-one occasions. He has already been sentenced to prison for between 18 and 20 years.
A second case highlights the behavior of a Catholic youth worker in Middleton. The seventy-five counts of child rape against him involved boys between the ages of seven and fourteen. It is thought possible that this Catholic youth worker could be sentenced to life in prison.
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A bill now pending in the Massachusetts Legislature would require priests and other clergy members to report suspected child sex abuse to state officials. The Boston diocese has, in the immediate wake of the rape scandal, thrown its weight behind this bill.
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