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Catholic Church in Texas Names Nearly 300 Priests Accused of Sex Abuse

StraitShot47

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We all know the number is higher.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/us/priests-abuse-texas.html

Paul Petersen, a spokesman in Dallas for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said the overall lack of detailed information pointed to the need for state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate the history of clerical sex abuse in Texas.

“All of this is the fox guarding the henhouse,” he said. “Most of this has not been corroborated by the police department, so you have to scratch your head and say, ‘Where is the actual transparency?’”

Mr. Petersen also said he thought it was probable that there were more than 300 priests who had committed sexual abuse in Texas since 1950. He pointed to a report in December by the Illinois attorney general that said the Catholic Church there had withheld the names of at least 500 priests accused of sexually abusing minors.

There are 3.4 million Catholics in Illinois, according to the Catholic Conference of Illinois, or less than half as many as in Texas.

“I am skeptical,” he said. “I am not trying to make it bigger than it is, but I think the number 300 is crazy low.”
 

Al Jilwah: Chapter IV

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