PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – John Doe number 172 was 13 years old and an
altar boy at Resurrection of Our Lord in Northeast Philadelphia when his
attorneys say the abuse began at the hands of Father Robert Brennan.
“He would take the kids, build their trust, groom the parents,” said Jeff
Anderson, Doe’s attorney, “have them sit on his lap, use their bodies for his
own sexual purpose.”
Anderson and his team of attorneys say Father Brennan abused John Doe over
the course of a year and a half between 1993 and 1994. But according to the 2005
grand jury report, Brennan abused many more childr…
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Earlier this month, St. John’s Abbey in
Collegeville mailed letters to thousands of St. John’s Prep School alumni saying
over a period of more than 40 years, 17 monks had “credible allegations of
sexual abuse brought against them.”
Four of the monks have died, 10 remain at the Abbey with restrictions imposed
on their activities.
But three of the monks accused of sexually abusing children and young adults
live here in the Twin Cities.
Attorneys to Layout Likely Next Steps in Historic Case Involving Vatican’s Role in Clergy Abuse Cover-up Constitutional scholar praises ruling—will…
A federal judge in Oregon ruled Thursday that the
Vatican must respond to certain requests for information from a man who says he
was molested by a priest in the 1960s.
The man known in court documents as John V. Doe filed suit eight years ago.
He seeks to hold the Vatican liable for the abuse he said he suffered from the
Rev. Andrew Ronan, who died in 1992.
U.S. Federal District Court order is first ever compelling Vatican to produce documents in clergy abuse cover-up case Judge:Clergy abuse victim entitled to “jurisdictional discovery” in John V. Doe v. Holy See (St. Paul, Minnesota USA)
The Vatican has been served with court papers related to allegations in a
sexual abuse case. St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson said this week he was
notified that the papers were successfully filed through official diplomatic
channels.
The lawsuit was filed nearly a year ago in federal court on behalf of Terry
Kohut, now of Chicago. It claims Pope Benedict and two other top Vatican
officials knew about allegations of sexual abuse at St. John’s School for the
Deaf outside Milwaukee, and called off internal punishment of the accused
priest, the late Rev. Lawrence Murphy.
The Vatican has been served with court papers stemming
from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse against a now-deceased priest at a
Wisconsin school for the deaf.Jeff Anderson, an attorney for the man
making the allegations, said he had been notified the papers were filed through
official diplomatic channels.”Every time we make a step forward, as long
as that takes, we are going in the right direction,” Anderson said. “And the
direction we’re headed is a measure of accountability. We really believe that we
need to put some heat on the Vatican to bring some light.”
U.S. Department of State confirms service through diplomatic channels Vatican sent original federal court’s service back saying it was “undesired…
Yesterday the Creditors’ Committee in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Bankruptcy
proceedings asked the Court to hire a forensic accounting firm to scrutinize the
Archdiocese and Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s transfer of millions of dollars in
the years leading up to the bankruptcy. The forensic accountants the
Creditor’s Committee is recommending are experts in reviewing financial affairs
of organizations, including transfers of money by the organization.
In spite of the fact that the Philadelphia Archdiocese secretly continued to allow three dozen credibly acused offenders to remain…
At a conference in Milwaukee this week, Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop
of Dublin, Ireland, provided a powerful message to those in attendance
when he said, “Only the truth sets us free.” And, that the church must
be “willing to tell the truth and take ownership of the truth, even when
the truth is unpleasant.”
It was one of the more searing allegations in the recent Philadelphia grand
jury report on clergy sex abuse:
A Bristol Township man killed himself after the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
refused to believe that a priest had molested him when he was an altar boy.
On Wednesday, relatives of the man, Daniel Neill, became the latest to sue
the archdiocese over its response to abuse victims. Neill shot himself in June
2009.
“It’s a wrongful death is what it is,” said Jeff Anderson, a lawyer for
Neill’s family.
The grand jury cited the handling of Neill’s complaint as one of three …
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