Confidential personnel records from five Catholic religious orders
were turned over to victims of sexual abuse Wednesday in the first wave
of a court-ordered public disclosure expected to shed light on the role
the groups, operating independently of the L.A. Archdiocese, played in
the region’s clergy molestation scandal.
The documents pertain to a dozen priests, brothers and nuns accused of sexual misconduct in the landmark 2007 settlement with hundreds of people who filed abuse claims against the Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles. An additional 45 religious orders will release the personnel files of their accused clergy by this fall, completing what is believed to be the fullest accounting yet of the abuse crisis anywhere in the Catholic Church.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/31/local/la-me-ln-catholic-clergy-abuse-files-20130731
The documents pertain to a dozen priests, brothers and nuns accused of sexual misconduct in the landmark 2007 settlement with hundreds of people who filed abuse claims against the Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles. An additional 45 religious orders will release the personnel files of their accused clergy by this fall, completing what is believed to be the fullest accounting yet of the abuse crisis anywhere in the Catholic Church.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/31/local/la-me-ln-catholic-clergy-abuse-files-20130731