New York state attorneys have subpoenaed Roman Catholic dioceses in a sweeping investigation against pedophiles. Fox News reports:
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has subpoenaed all eight Roman Catholic dioceses in the state as part of an investigation into the handling of sexual abuse allegations, a law enforcement source told The Associated Press on Thursday
The subpoenas seek documents relating to abuse allegations, payments to victims and findings from internal church investigations. Underwood’s office is pursuing a civil investigation into the church’s response to abuse reports, and has also reached out to local prosecutors authorized to convene grand juries or pursue criminal investigations.
The subpoenas were issued to the Archdiocese of New York in New York City, as well as dioceses in Albany, Brooklyn, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, Ogdensburg and Rockville Centre.
“The Pennsylvania grand jury report shined a light on incredibly disturbing and depraved acts by Catholic clergy, assisted by a culture of secrecy and cover-ups in the dioceses,” Underwood said in a statement. “Victims in New York deserve to be heard as well — and we are going to do everything in our power to bring them the justice they deserve.”
This is a huge move that could potentially uncover more disturbing allegations against the Church.
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THese ordained Priests should KNOW BETTER!
The Catholic Church needs to reconsider priests should be permitted to marry.
Nothing in the Word of God (Bible) says they should not marry.
It’s not a question of marriage– almost 90% of those cases involve homosexual attacks on teens & young men. And still the media support the attackers by not admitting that they are mentally/emotionally disturbed people. Hundreds of case studies proved that, but the homo. takeover of the American Psychiatric Association 4 decades ago led to the removal of the condition as a matter for psychiatric help. And so the world gets more & more screwed up….
And what are they going to do if they find this situation ended years ago or maybe did not exist? Will they be big enough to apologize and admit they made a big mistake?
I hope you’re planning to do the same with all those in government and law enforcement.
Yes investigate themselves –govt. Cover ups in the FBI/DOJ seem like dept SOP. Probably only at the top where politics is active instead of performance.
Ok, do the same for the abuse teachers are doing to our children. The percentage of teachers abusing students is much higher than priests.
And what are they teaching? That homosexuality is OK. that MO is a prophet, etc.. That Trump is a racist, etc.
Boy your real quick to throw out the racist card against a man you don’t even know. Seems to me people who use the racist card to try and get what they want with it. You know i am a 56 year old white man, never really thought about the race of people until people like you Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson started ramming it down ar throat. Keep going with this shit and all 14 percent of you will end up starting some shit that you ain’t gonna want. You can only push people so far before they get tired of it, we’ve just about reached that point now.
I read your comment wrong sorry about the confusion. But i for one am getting really tired of this race card bullshit. There wouldn’t be all this racist bullshit if the minoritys would quit throwing it in our faces every damn time they didn’t get what they wanted. I’m a white man and i damn sure don’t get what i want. I have to work my ass of for what i get.