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Gurdur · 01-29-2003, 08:41 PM

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A US lawyer today filed 70 new lawsuits accusing 41 Roman Catholic priests of sexually abusing children in the Boston archdiocese as far back as the 1940s.

In the latest legal salvo against the church, lawyer Mitchell Garabedian has named the archdiocese as a defendant in 52 of the claims he filed in Suffolk Superior Court.
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Law and other former archdiocese officials face allegations they knew priests had been accused of paedophilia but failed to keep the clergymen from children.....

Proxima Centauri · 01-30-2003, 11:40 AM

We've had similar trouble here in the UK.

This is One of Many Examples.

:banghead:

Gurdur · 01-30-2003, 12:12 PM

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Originally posted by B.Shack
We've had similar trouble here in the UK.
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And in Australia, Germany and Italy, and in other countries.

Shake · 01-30-2003, 01:08 PM

Why am I not surprised about these stories? Why also, do I feel that these are not the last we're going to hear about this sort of thing?

christ-on-a-stick · 01-30-2003, 01:55 PM

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Why also, do I feel that these are not the last we're going to hear about this sort of thing?

'Cause they're not (the last we're going to hear). I would bet on it, and I'm not a betting woman.

This kind of corruption runs deep.

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01-30-2003, 11:40 AM	#2
Proxima Centauri Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: England, the EU. Posts: 2,403	We've had similar trouble here in the UK. This is One of Many Examples. :banghead:

01-30-2003, 01:08 PM	#4
Shake Contributor Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Folding@Home in upstate NY Posts: 14,394	Why am I not surprised about these stories? Why also, do I feel that these are not the last we're going to hear about this sort of thing?

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