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20 August 2016

Catholic church lawyer details cover-up claims on sex abuse

Jennifer Haselberger, the highest-level official from a US diocese to make claims of a cover-up, is a canon law expert educated at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She alleges a cover-up is happening right now in Minnesota.
[snip] ” . . .  Haselberger said that when she started examining records in 2008 of clergy under restrictions over sex misconduct with adults and children she found “nearly 20” of the 48 men still in ministry. She said she repeatedly warned Nienstedt and his aides about the risk of these placements, but they took action only in one case. As a result of raising alarms, she said she was eventually shut out of meetings about priest misconduct. She resigned last year.   . . . “

https://dublinsmickdotcom.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/catholic-church-lawyer-details-cover-up-claims-on-sex-abuse/