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CHICAGO (IL): The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay 15 men and women more than $8 million to settle their claims of sexual abuse at the hands of a dozen Chicago priests. In the settlement announced Thursday of the abuse claims that date from 1954 to the early 1990s, archdiocesan officials also agreed:

To fund an annual conference for victims of sexual abuse for the next five years.

To post the name of any new priest removed from ministry because of sexual abuse allegations on its official Web site for 30 days.

To establish -- either online or by phone -- a process where anyone can check to see if a certain priest has had substantiated allegations of abuse made against him.
That inquiry process, which will also provide the status of ministry and location (if known) of any accused priest, is expected to be in place no later than Jan. 15, 2004, said Jeffrey Anderson, an attorney for the 15 victims who settled their abuse claims this week after nearly nine months of mediation with the archdiocese. Anderson, a Minnesota attorney who has sued more than half of the dioceses in the United States over sexual abuse cases, also represented four other victims who settled their abuse claims with the archdiocese last month for more than $4 million. Those victims, who all claim to have been abused by Vincent McCaffrey, a former archdiocese priest who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for possession of child pornography, also had been part of the mediation process with the archdiocese, he said. -- Chicago Sun-Times, "Archdiocese settles 15 sex abuse claims for $8 million," www.suntimes.com , By Cathleen Falsani, Religion Reporter, (distributed by Poynteronline, Abuse Tracker, Friday Oct 3 2003)

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Most newsitems are from http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=46 • Worcester Diocese hierarchy did not deal with sex abuse: Judge's criticism. WORCESTER (MA): The judge who sentenced child rapist Robert Kelley to state prison Wednesday joined the Catholic priest's victims in criticizing the Worcester Diocese for its handling of the pedophile priest. "The only sacredness in this saga is the children," Superior Court Judge John McCann said before a courtroom crowded with abuse victims and their families. "The only darkness is the inertness of the hierarchy." McCann said he imposed a five- to seven-year sentence on Kelley with "sadness for the thousands of very good priests who were stained by this ugly blemish; sadness that the church hierarchy could not and was not willing to deal with this extraordinarily difficult issue." Lawyers and spokesmen for the Office of Bishop Daniel Reilly have consistently said Kelley was removed immediately from ministry when a previous bishop learned about the abuse. "I'm a little bit surprised that the judge is expressing an opinion in this way," said Ray Delisle, diocesan spokesman. "This case does not involve the diocese. ... Clearly this was not what was being heard in court." In 1999, a civil lawsuit filed by Cyndi Desrosiers, who said she was victimized by Kelley in Southbridge, found Kelley responsible for money damages but cleared the Worcester Diocese of responsibility in the abuse. Kelley was still paying those damages before he was sent to prison Wednesday. Another group of women who filed civil lawsuits against the priest and diocese dropped the suits a few months ago, but said Wednesday they didn't do it voluntarily. The statute of limitations prevented them from moving forward. "I despise the Worcester Diocese for their lack of compassion, sensitivity, loyalty, honesty, concern, and their total indifference to victims," said John Mackey outside the courtroom where Kelley was sentenced for raping his daughter, Heather Mackey. -- Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise, "Judge, victims condemn the Worcester Diocese," (http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/Stories/0,1413,106~4992~1671514,00.html) By Matt O'Brien, (Posted by Kathy Shaw, distributed by Poynteronline Abuse Tracker, Oct 3 2003)
• Priest raped two young girls. [1980s] WORCESTER (MA): Former Leominster priest Robert Kelley cried Wednesday as a judge sentenced him to five to seven years in state prison for raping two girls in the early 1980s. Kelley, 61, pleaded guilty in August to raping the two young girls while he was a priest at St. Cecilia's Parish in Leominster. Before Superior Court Judge John McCann sentenced the priest, Kelley apologized to his two victims. Kelley, who abused the girls between 1981 and 1984, said he was "truly sorry" for being the "stumbling block" who robbed them of their innocence and faith. "There is nothing else but selfishness, call it sin or whatever you want to," Kelley said. But both victims, Heather Mackey Godin of Tewksbury and Diane Gallien of Ashburnham, said they wanted to be sure Kelley stayed away from children. The Sentinel & Enterprise named the women because they agreed to speak publicly to the media. -- Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise, "Victim to priest: 'I've seen evil'," (http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/Stories/0,1413,106~4992~1671495,00.html) By Matt O'Brien, (distributed by Poynteronline Abuse Tracker, Oct 3 2003)
• Leominster priest jailed for raping 4 and 5 y-os in '80s; "I've seen evil, and it's you." [1980s] WORCESTER (MA):A priest who pleaded guilty in August to raping two young girls in a Leominster parish two decades ago was ordered yesterday to serve a 5- to 7-year prison term with the stipulation that he be placed immediately in protective custody. The Rev. Robert Kelley, 61, who served six years in the 1990s for raping another girl, was also given 20 years probation by Superior Court Judge John McCann, who cited the prison murder of defrocked priest John J. Geoghan in urging protective custody. But he rejected a defense appeal that the priest serve his time in an alternative setting, calling Kelley "disingenuous" for stating in his previous trial he had forgotten the names of his other victims. "He has not taken full responsibility for his actions," McCann said. After hearing victims Heather Mackey and Diane Gallian tell of the lasting pain from his molestation, which began when they were 4 and 5 years old, the suspended priest and Back Bay flower shop owner apologized to them. "The best I can offer is to say I'm truly sorry for being a stumbling block that robbed them of what I heard: innocence, life, happiness, their religion," said Kelley. In her statement, Gallian said, "Father Kelley, I know I can say I have seen evil. And it's you." -- Boston Herald, "Leominster priest jailed for raping girls in '80s," (http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/prie10022003.htm) by Robin Washington, Thursday, October 2, 2003
• $12M Abuse Settlement In Chicago. CHICAGO (IL): The Chicago Archdiocese agreed Thursday to pay $12 million to 19 people who say they were molested by priests over the past five decades. Individual settlements will range from $200,000 to $1.7 million, according to attorney Jeffrey R. Anderson, whose firm worked out the agreement with the archdiocese. At a news conference attended by several of the alleged victims, the archdiocese released the names of the 12 priests accused of committing the abuse, along with a list of all the parishes they were been assigned to. None of the men are currently active in the priesthood and several are dead, Anderson and archdiocese officials said. Stanley Cwikla, 62, of Fox River Grove, said he was 14 when a priest abused him. He called the crime "a case of rape and murder of the soul" and said Illinois should drop the statute of limitations that prevents prosecutors from bringing charges. -- CBS (AP), "$12M Abuse Settlement In Chicago," (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/03/national/main576365.shtml), Oct 3 03
• Keating, supposed to clean up Church, says he was subject of smear campaign. WASHINGTON (DC) Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating said he was subjected to a smear campaign in church circles while he was chairman of the U.S. bishops' National Review Board investigating clerical sexual abuse of minors. In an article in the October issue of Crisis, a Catholic monthly magazine, Keating said a letter "purportedly" from the vicar general of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese accused him of not attending Sunday Mass and of having a mistress. "Every word was a lie. Mass is a vital part of my Sunday. And my wife of 31 years is my superior in style, talent and virtue. Only a blind man or a fool would betray her," Keating wrote. Keating said the letter was "purportedly written by the vicar general of Oklahoma City -- a priest and the diocese's No. 2 official -- to his counterpart in Chicago." -- Catholic News Service,, "Former sex abuse panel head says he was subject of smear campaign," (http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20031002.htm) By Jerry Filteau, Oct 2 03
• Tragic End For Ridgewood Man Who Claimed Abuse By Priest. NEW YORK: The man scheduled to be the lead plaintiff in a massive sexual abuse lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, died last week, apparently after ingesting antifreeze. Dennis Brown, 44, was found early Saturday morning by his girlfriend inside a Ridgewood apartment that he shared with a friend. The girlfriend, who had argued with Brown earlier in the night, called 911 after finding him unsteady and breathing with difficulty. Brown was taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn where he died Sunday night. Police have not yet declared his death a suicide. It was a tragic end for a man seemingly plagued with despair and pain throughout his life. Brown grew up in Flushing attending St. Michael's school and church. He later studied at Mater Christi Diocesan High School-now known as St. John' s Preparatory-in Astoria. Brown claimed that while serving as an altar boy at St. Michael's in 1970 and 1971, he was repeatedly molested by Reverend James Collins, 57. For years, he kept the alleged sexual abuse private from friends and family. Following high school, he attended junior college in Florida and then moved to Atlanta, where he worked for two decades in property management. -- Queens Chronicle, "Tragic End For Ridgewood Man Who Claimed Abuse By Priest," (http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1864&dept_id=152800&newsid=1025941 0&PAG=461&rfi=9), (distributed by Poynteronline, Abuse Tracker, Kathy Shaw, Friday Oct 3 2003)
• Bishop distances himself from lawyers' dismissal moves. SPRINGFIELD (MA): Thursday, October 2, 2003: Bishop Thomas L. Dupre of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield this week distanced himself from a recent attempt by lawyers to dismiss five cases against the diocese for its handling of alleged priest sexual misconduct. He also pledged that the diocese will go back in its files over the past 50 years to count the number of cases of alleged abuse - and make that public by the year's end. "I think that when all that is made public," he said, "the problem is going to be seen more in perspective." In an hour-long interview with the Gazette Wednesday, Dupre said that every case with merit against the diocese should be financially compensated, regardless of when the abuse occurred. "I think it's in everybody's interest to settle these things and get them behind us," Dupre said. -- Hampshire Gazette, "Bishop supports 'just' settlement of abuse cases," (http://www.gazettenet.com/10022003/news/9498.htm) , By Kathleen Mellen, Oct 2 03
• Lawyer: More than 10% of priests abused up to 1,000; accused abuser was put in charge of an orphanage. COVINGTON (KY): Over the past 50 years, the Diocese of Covington has assigned abusive priests to be pastors, counselors, teachers and even the director of a boy's orphanage, an attorney suing the diocese said during court arguments Wednesday. The diocese moved the priests around after accusations were made against them, then put them back in places where they had easy access to children. The diocese also taught children to respect, honor and obey the priests' commands, attorney Robert Steinberg argued. The result is that up to 1,000 children were abused over the past 50 years, with at least 40 priests -- more than 10 percent of the total priests in the diocese over that period -- identified as abusers, Steinberg charged. "They have admitted to 30 priests," Steinberg said. "Our count so far is 40 -- and climbing. There was an epidemic in this diocese." -- The Kentucky Post, "Lawyer: Up to 1,000 abused," (http://www.kypost.com/2003/10/02/dioc100203.html), By Paul A. Long, Oct 2 03
• Sex with infant girl; bishop reneged, showed no compassion. WORCESTER (MA): John Mackey spoke directly and passionately as he stood outside the courthouse where a priest who raped his daughter as a young child had just been sentenced to prison. "I despise the Worcester Diocese for their lack of compassion, sensitivity, loyalty, honesty, concern, and their total indifference to victims," said Mackey, Tewksbury's police chief. Mackey said he and his wife, Barbara, met with the late Bishop Timothy Harrington, then leader of the diocese, when the couple's daughter, Heather Mackey Godin, was in eighth grade, nearly a decade after the abuse at the hands of Rev. Robert Kelley began at St. Cecilia's Parish in Leominster. "Bishop Harrington told us that he believed Heather's story," John Mackey said. "Harrington also said that the church was responsible for her and that they would therefore provide psychological counseling. That agreement was sealed with a handshake." Mackey said the diocese later reneged on the agreement when the family contacted a lawyer. -- Lowell Sun, "Victim's Dad Speaks Out," (http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1413,105~4746~1671559,00.html), By Matt O'Brien, MediaNews, (distributed by Poynteronline, Abuse Tracker, Friday Oct 3 2003)
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• Diocese well-organised secrecy based on 1962 Vatican document. NEW YORK: Twenty-seven Catholics charge in a lawsuit that they were abused by priests as children and that the Diocese of Brooklyn covered up the abuse in line with secret Vatican policy. The $300 million lawsuit, filed yesterday in Queens Supreme Court, charges the diocese with a "well-organized, successful and corrupt" cover-up scheme. That scheme was authorized by a secret 1962 Vatican document, said lawyer Michael Dowd, who brought the suit. The document - uncovered by lawyers investigating church sex abuse around the country - says those who handle allegations of priestly sex abuse are "restrained by a perpetual silence" enforceable by "penalty of excommunication." "That's a bombshell of a document," said Dowd. -- New York Post, "Diocese Cover-Up Charged In Perv Suit," (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/7112.htm) October 2, 2003
• 'Taking the lead'. OWENSBORO (KY): Her testimony was intense. In a video made by the Diocese of Owensboro, a sexual abuse survivor relayed how a priest repeatedly assaulted her as a child and the long road she traveled to find healing. The video -- shown Wednesday night to a large crowd in the cafeteria at Holy Name School -- is part of a new program called Safe Environment, mandated by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops during its meeting last fall in Dallas regarding sexual abuse in the church. "We're trying to make the best of a tragic situation," said the Rev. Ed Bradley of Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church. "We (the Catholic church) are taking the lead now" in combating sexual abuse. Wednesday's meeting, which lasted about two hours, was a requirement for all diocese employees as well as any volunteers who work with children, Bradley said. A Safe Environment program will be held annually at the beginning of each school year. -- Gleaner, 'Taking the lead,' (http://www.myinky.com/ecp/gleaner_news/article/0,1626,ECP_4476_2315096,00 html) By Beth Smith, Oct 2, 2003
• Geoghan's sister says guards harassed ex-priest. BOSTON (MA): Catherine T. Geoghan yesterday added her voice to those who say they witnessed guards at Concord state prison abuse their authority and harass her late brother, defrocked priest John J. Geoghan. In a two-page written statement released yesterday, Geoghan said a prison official to whom she complained about her brother being assaulted by a guard in the visitors center "disputed my report, then lied to me, fabricating the story that he saw John attack the guard when I know that he did not. "By inventing a story to protect the guard, that official clearly communicated to me not only John's vulnerability to the whims of abusive guards, but the prison's ability to manipulate the disciplinary and grievance procedures to hide mistreatment," wrote Geoghan, 69, a retired teacher who frequently visited her brother during his 18 months of imprisonment. "No honest person would believe John was a discipline problem." Leslie Walker, director of Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, which represented John Geoghan before he was strangled in prison on Aug. 23, read Geoghan's statement at a news conference yesterday, then added her own concerns that the state was conducting a "whitewash" investigation into John Geoghan's death. -- Boston Globe, (http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/10/02/geoghans_sister_says _guards_harassed_ex_priest/), By Sean P. Murphy, Oct 2 2003 (Posted by Kathy Shaw 8:16:15 AM)
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• Convicted Wisconsin priest "recycled" down to California. SANTA ANA, (Calif.): The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee can be sued for sending a pedophile priest to California without revealing his conviction for child molestation, a state appeals court ruled. The ruling was the first from a California appeals court on the question of whether out-of-state Roman Catholic officials can be held liable for failure to report past misconduct. Attorneys said it could affect other cases statewide. The 4th District Court of Appeal ruling came in a lawsuit brought by a man who claimed he was molested in Orange County by Siegfried Widera after the priest arrived from Wisconsin in 1976. Widera had been convicted three years earlier of sexual misconduct with a teenage boy in Wisconsin. However, the Diocese of Orange said it didn't know about the conviction when Widera moved to California. -- Post-Crescent, The Associated Press, "Court: Alleged victim can sue archdiocese," www.wisinfo.com , (distributed by Poynteronline, Abuse Tracker, Saturday Oct 4 2003)
And see Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee (WI), "Ruling lets victim sue archdiocese here," www.jsonline.com , By Tom Heinen, theinen@journalsentinel.com , Oct. 3, 2003
• Archdiocese's Newspaper Nixes Ad; Catholic New York to Voice of the Faithful: No thanks. NEW YORK: The newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York has refused to publish a paid advertisement for the Catholic lay organization, Voice of the Faithful, according to the organizer of an upcoming conference. The Voice of the Faithful wanted to publicize their Oct. 25 conference on the church's sexual abuse crisis. According to a conference program, the meeting is an effort to "go forth in a spirit of healing and hope." "It's not an abortion clinic," said the conference coordinator, Marie Ford Reilly, expressing surprise that the ad would be turned down. "Obviously it's a blow to us. We very much need to get the word out. This is an opportunity for Catholics who love our church... to work to facilitate healing and strengthening and renewal for our future." -- Newsday, http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-cath1004,0,1525963,print.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines , By Stephanie Saul, October 3, 2003
• Sex abuse of girl from age 7; raped two other girls; 5-7 years gaol. LUNENBURG (MA): Kelly Kurtz remembers the day early in 2002 when a stranger named Heather Mackey left a short message on the answering machine of her Lunenburg parents. "She just said that she and I had a common acquaintance, who was Robert Kelley," Kurtz said Thursday. "She said please call her back." Kurtz claims to have been molested by the Rev. Robert Kelley, a former pastor at churches in Lunenburg, Leominster and Gardner, more than 20 years ago. She said Thursday she was 7 when the abuse started in the late 1970s. Kelley was a priest at St. Boniface Church who was also considered a friend by the Kurtz family. Kurtz, now a 37-year-old Lunenburg resident, sat in a front row in the Worcester Superior Court Wednesday when Kelley was sentenced for raping Heather Mackey of Tewskbury and Diane Gallien of Ashburnham in the 1980s, while serving as priest at St. Cecilia's Church in Leominster. She witnessed the 61-year-old Kelley tearfully apologize to Mackey and Gallien before being sentenced to 5 to 7 years in state prison. Afterwards Kurtz, who filed a suit against the Worcester Diocese in 2002, said her own trials with the twice-convicted child rapist are far from over. Frustrated because the Diocese has suggested it is not responsible for Kelley's abuse, Kurtz spoke publicly about the priest for the first time in an interview with the Sentinel & Enterprise on Thursday. -- Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise, "Lunenburg woman claims abuse by priest," http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/Stories/0,1413,106~4992~1674441,00.html , By Matt O'Brien (distributed by Kathy Shaw of Poynteronline Abuse Tracker, Oct 4 2003)
• Fr. Kelley unnatural rape of child. WORCESTER (MA): Father Robert E. Kelley, 61, who pleaded guilty in Superior Court Aug. 14 to four counts of unnatural rape of a child and two counts of rape of a child, was sentenced to five to seven years in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Cedar Junction, Walpole, Wednesday. At the sentencing procedure Wednesday, Worcester Superior Court Judge John S. McCann also placed Father Kelley on probation for 20 years after he serves his prison sentence. Father Kelley served six years in prison after pleading guilty in March 1990 to charges of assault with intent to rape and two counts of unnatural rape of a child and indecent assault and battery on a child. Father Kelley was removed from ministry by the Diocese in 1985. Judge McCann said he imposed the sentence "with great sadness ... sadness for the victims who have lived in their private prisons for the past 20 years; sadness for the thousands of very good priests who are stained by this ugly blemish; sadness that the Church hierarchy could not and was not willing to deal with this extraordinarily difficult issue; sadness that society must suffer through this and acknowledge that priests can indeed be pedophiles, and sadness that I must consider the ramifications of sentencing a Catholic priest." -- The Catholic Free Press, "Fr. Kelley sentenced to jail again," http://www.catholicfreepress.org/Jail.html , By William T. Clew, (distributed by Kathy Shaw of Poynteronline Abuse Tracker, Oct 4 2003)
• New Bishop Pledges Support for Abuse Victims, Jews, Muslims, Protestants and Immigrants. BROOKLYN (NY): Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio was installed yesterday as the seventh bishop of Brooklyn in a rite of pomp and majesty before scores of prelates and a smattering of New York political figures. In his homily at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sunset Park, the new bishop reached out to the disparate interests of his turf — Jews, Muslims, Protestants and immigrant groups. And as is now becoming mandatory for public statements from the nation's bishops, he promised to take care of the victims of the clerical sexual abuse scandal. "The church must be a mother to show its care for victims of sexual abuse, especially those who have suffered at the hands of those working for the church," the bishop said. But he added that the church must also care for the perpetrators. While a joyous time in Brooklyn, it is a nervous moment for Roman Catholics, as reports about Pope John Paul II's ill health filter back from Rome. The event yesterday was not immune. The new bishop asked for prayers for the pope. "We're concerned about his health," Bishop DiMarzio said in a brief interview after the Mass. "But everyone's life comes to an end. His legacy is incredible. His impact on the whole world is without precedent. We just hope he doesn't give up." -- The New York Times, "New Bishop Pledges Support for Abuse Victims," http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/nyregion/04BISH.html?ex=1065931200&en=3fcb0294c64f43c1&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE , By Daniel J. Wakin, Published: October 4, 2003
There were 2000 invited guests, according to Newsday on Oct 3 03.
• "Voice Of The Faithful" Send Message To Church Leaders. CINCINNATI (OH): About 200 Tri-state residents gathered Saturday to confront the Roman Catholic church's handling of clergy sexual abuse scandals. They gathered at Good Shepherd Church in Sycamore Township to attend the first regional conference entitled, "Voice of the Faithful," and to send a powerful message to church leaders -- to discover a key to healing. "If we don't talk about it, and look at it, and grow up as adults in our church and confront the realities -- our church will become obsolete," said Nan Fischer, of Voice of the Faithful. At Saturday's conference there was less talking, and more listening. Members heard from Pat Stachler, a wife and mother, who says she survived a brutal rape at the hands of a Dayton priest almost 40-years ago. Stachler said she still remembers the moments afterward -- and sometimes the shame and the pain feel like more than she can bear. "He takes my left hand, pries it open, slaps money in it and closes it -- and tells me to hop a bus the next day and go down to Cincinnati for confession to the Franciscans," recalled Stachler. -- WCPO, http://www.wcpo.com/news/2003/local/10/04/catholic.html , Reported by: Jennifer Steiner, Web produced by: Neil Relyea, Photographed by: 9News, Oct 4 03
• Former teacher faces new sex abuse charges [1998] NEW ORLEANS (LA): A former educator who lived in New Orleans from 1998 until this summer has been charged with six additional counts of sexual abuse from three former students of a Mobile, Ala., high school. Nicholas Paul Bendillo, 74, a former educator at McGill-Toolen High School, pleaded innocent Thursday at the arraignment in Mobile. He remained free on his initial $15,000 bond. Bendillo is now charged with 10 counts of abuse involving five accusers who were students at the Mobile school. A tentative trial date of Nov. 17 has been set. Bendillo, also known as Brother Vic, worked at McGill-Toolen from 1959 until 1998. Bendillo was removed from his job in 1998 following abuse complaints. He lived in New Orleans with the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, a religious order of male teachers, from 1998 until this summer, the Rev. William Maestri, spokesman for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, said in August. -- Times-Picayune, http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-1/106524899666270.xml , From staff and wire reports Saturday October 04, 2003
• Priest admits sex with mother while teenage girl in house: Vatican case. NEW JERSEY: Bishop Frank Rodimer has asked church officials in Rome to hear the case of a former Morristown pastor accused of molesting a child decades ago -- one of eight cases that Paterson Diocese officials say they are sending to the Vatican for some sort of determination. They are among hundreds of cases sent there by Roman Catholic dioceses across the nation as part of the legal mechanism for determining the guilt or innocence of priests accused of sexually abusing children. In a letter dated Aug. 1, Rodimer requested a trial in Rome for Monsignor John Henry Dericks, former pastor of Assumption parish in Morristown who has been accused of fondling a teenage girl decades ago at his home in Andover. Rodimer said in the letter, sent to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, that Dericks, 87, has admitted having an affair with the girl's mother. The priest also admitted to having sexual relations with the mother at his home while the girl was in the house, according to the letter, but he denied having sexual contact with the teenager. --Daily Record, "Vatican asked to put priest on trial," http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/articles/news2-settlement2.htm , By Abbott Koloff, ( Posted by Poynteronline Abuse Tracker on Oct 6 03) FOR GOOD TEACHINGS TO BE HEEDED, A BIG CLEAN-UP IS NEEDED The POYNTER INSTITUTE is a Journalism School, based at St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A.
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