L.A. Times exposes Cardinal Mahony’s decades-long pattern of shielding child-abusing priests

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/03/l-a-times-exposes-cardinal-mahoneys-decades-long-pattern-of-shielding-child-abusing-priests/



L.A. Times exposes Cardinal Mahony’s decades-long pattern of shielding child-abusing priests
By Scott Kaufman
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 11:32 EST

The Los Angeles Times has published an exhaustive account — based on over 23,000 pages of internal documents from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles — of the former Archbishop of Los Angeles’s complicity in the Catholic Church’s child abuse scandal.

The article documents Roger Mahony’s involvement at all levels of the attempted cover-up of priests who molested children, beginning with the day in December 1986 when Father Michael Baker confessed to Mahony that he had molested two boys.

According to Mahony in a video deposition, his initial reason for not reporting Baker to the police was that “you only call the police when you’ve victims that you can talk to,” because “the suspected child abuse form” contains “a big section about each victim and the victim’s parent, so you, obviously, if you can’t fill out the form, you can’t send it in.”

Instead of reporting Baker to the police, he had him sent to a church-run clinic in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, where they “treat pedophilia.” When abusers were sent to therapists outside the church, Mahony and his aides selected ones they knew would not report the abuse to authorities.



unhappycamper comment: Having lived in Boston since 1973. I watched the Boston Archdiocese unwind due to pedophilia. Our Cardinal at the time, Bernard Law, ended up flying to and staying at the Vatican. Will Roger join Bernie?

With our new Pope, this may not be a slam dunk.

[KansDem]

1. Send him to prison...

As an accomplice and enabler of these disgusting crimes, that's where he belongs.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Whore.