Pages

23 April 2015

Events of the child-porn case that brought down a US bishop

Bishop Robert Finn, who led the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in Missouri for nearly 10 years, resigned Tuesday, almost three years after he was convicted of shielding an abusive priest.
Back in 2012, Finn admitted that he knew about photos of children on a priest’s laptop six months before the images were turned over to law enforcement. That made him the highest-ranking church official in the U.S. to be convicted of not taking action in response to abuse allegations. A look at key developments in the case against Finn:

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/04/22/events-of-the-child-porn-case-that-brought-down-a-us-bishop/