Atty General Miller seeks info on abuse cases from Iowa Dioceses
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller is asking Roman Catholic officials in Iowa to provide records on clergy sexual abuse so his office can launch a third-party review.
Miller says Monday he's sent letters to bishops in Davenport, Des Moines, Dubuque and Sioux City seeking lists of priests and other church employees deemed "credibly accused" of sexual abuse and lists of accusations deemed not credible. He also wants notes from board meetings where accusations were considered, documentation of reports of abuse received by church officials and actions taken, and copies of settlement agreements with abuse survivors.
Of course no story on the Roman church here in Iowa would be complete without a bit of good ol tone deafness (disclaimer: I was raised a Catholic)
Iowa Catholic Conference spokesman Tom Chapman says each diocese plans to comply with Miller's request. He says if there have been failures in the past, it is not for lack of trying, adding "there is no perfection this side of heaven."
The only trying a lot of these dioceses did was to put their abusive priests ahead of the welfare of others - children, vulnerable adults, and even the good clergy that tried to do their goddamn jobs.
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