Law Firms Accuse 83 Clerics Of Abuse In The Albany Diocese

[trotsky]

https://www.wamc.org/post/law-firms-accuse-83-clerics-abuse-albany-diocese

Today in Albany, sexual abuse survivors joined representatives of two law firms in releasing the names and photographs of more than 80 clergymen in the Diocese of Albany accused of sexual misconduct. The Diocese disputes the report.

The law firms of Jeff Anderson & Associates of New York City and LaFave, Wein & Frament, PLLC, of Guilderland, produced a report they say reveals the identities, histories, photographs and information on the clerics, all accused of child sexual abuse. Jeff Anderson: "The Catholic Bishop in Albany has already released a list of some 47 under some pressure. The number of those we released here today is 83. A large number of names yet to be known are priests in the Diocese of Albany accused, but there's also a number of priests who are members of religious orders, that have never been disclosed."

...The survivors are demanding full disclosure by the Diocese of Albany and the religious orders involved regarding all clergy accused of sexual abuse who worked in the diocese, including their current whereabouts, photographs and histories. Many of the clergy listed in the report have died, but others’ current whereabouts are unknown.

...Again, Jeff Anderson: “We know that the Catholic Diocese and the Catholic Bishops across this country, whom we’ve sued, every single of them in the last 30 years, that they have permitted crimes of clerics to have occurred and given safe harbor to them. We also know that they have engaged in practices, employing protocols of secrecy, that have allowed the top officials to be complicit in participation of some of those crimes. We are not calling the Catholic Diocese of Albany a criminal enterprise. We are calling on them to do better to protect the kids and reveal the truth today.”

[riversedge]

1. omg!! what next!!

[demigoddess]

2. I have a question, Do people go into religion just so they can hurt and

abuse other people? Seems like churches have a higher rate than open public institutions such as public schools. So it must be that people go to church in order to act on these impulses because they know they will be safe to do so.

[trotsky]

4. They often choose organizations that have a power structure favorable to abusers.

The Catholic Church has long added a layer of protection for abusers that they can't get anywhere else - clericalism. It's a core part of Catholic dogma.

[Act_of_Reparation]

5. Some do.

It's the perfect cover for a predator: a position of authority and trust.

[Voltaire2]

3. At this point this would be a major headline: "catholic diocese found to not have covered up abuse

for decades."

[MineralMan]

6. It continues.

The abuse and the covering up by the RCC hierarchy. It must end!