Sins of the Fathers

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🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Survivors of Catholic clergy sexual abuse have gone after the church in a piecemeal fashion. But the Roman Catholic Church’s cover-up of child sexual abuse goes back decades, and experts say it reaches the upper echelons of church leadership. What would it take to go after the Vatican? We talk to someone who’s tried it: Marci Hamilton, a professor and founder of Child USA.

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0:00.0	Michael J. Amy. Thomas J. Bender.
0:06.0	Donald C. Bolton. Robert F. Bauer.
0:10.0	Donald Cooper. Robert G. Cofenes.
0:14.0	Joseph Galco.
0:16.0	This summer, as part of a grand jury report, the state attorney general in Pennsylvania released this list.
0:22.4	Michael R. Freeman.
0:24.8	Edward Graff.
0:27.1	Francis J. From Holzer.
0:30.1	It's a list of 301 members of the Catholic clergy.
0:33.9	All of them, accused of sexual abuse.
0:36.5	Robert E. Hannan.
0:37.8	Edward George Ganster.
0:39.7	James P. Hopkins.
0:41.1	Francis T. Julesby.
0:43.1	Almost every instance of abuse was too old to be prosecuted.
0:47.8	The statute of limitations had expired.
0:50.0	Over 1,000 child victims were identified by our investigation,
0:57.2	though the grand jury notes that they believe that number was in the thousands.
1:03.4	Richard J. Giuliani.
1:05.6	Joseph H. Keene.
1:07.0	Joseph D. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H.
1:08.4	Henry Paul. Paul Pousa.
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