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On 10th anniversary, Cardinal O’Malley recaps church response to sex abuse scandal; critics are ...
Source: Boston Globe
On 10th anniversary, Cardinal O’Malley recaps church response to sex abuse scandal; critics are unimpressed
01/04/2012 2:37 PM
By Brian MacQuarrie and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff
The Archdiocese of Boston has settled approximately 800 clergy sexual abuse claims, is providing care to about 300 abuse survivors at any given time, and has given anti-abuse training to nearly half a million children and adults, Cardinal Sean O’Malley said in a report issued today outlining the church’s response in the wake of the scandal that first broke 10 years ago this month.
But critics said they were unimpressed. “To this point, the church has failed miserably, miserably, miserably,” said Bernie McDaid, 55, of Peabody, who was abused in the late 1960s in Salem.
“Nothing has been done but whatever the court has made them do,” McDaid said.
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Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, also assailed O’Malley’s statements. “I’m very underwhelmed,” McKiernan said, adding that the cardinal “basically recycles the usual claims that we’ve heard a lot already, that they’ve experienced a learning curve, that they really didn’t understand the situation.”
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01/04/2012 2:37 PM
By Brian MacQuarrie and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff
The Archdiocese of Boston has settled approximately 800 clergy sexual abuse claims, is providing care to about 300 abuse survivors at any given time, and has given anti-abuse training to nearly half a million children and adults, Cardinal Sean O’Malley said in a report issued today outlining the church’s response in the wake of the scandal that first broke 10 years ago this month.
But critics said they were unimpressed. “To this point, the church has failed miserably, miserably, miserably,” said Bernie McDaid, 55, of Peabody, who was abused in the late 1960s in Salem.
“Nothing has been done but whatever the court has made them do,” McDaid said.
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Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, also assailed O’Malley’s statements. “I’m very underwhelmed,” McKiernan said, adding that the cardinal “basically recycles the usual claims that we’ve heard a lot already, that they’ve experienced a learning curve, that they really didn’t understand the situation.”
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Read more: http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2012/01/victims-clergy-sex-abuse-assail-archdiocese-anniversary-scandal/1ZE6ZL7VD5HDLGxtDg2lbO/index.html