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22 April 2015

Victims warn children still face danger of abuse despite long-awaited ouster of Kansas City bishop

On Tuesday, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Robert Finn, a former bishop who willfully protected priestly purveyors of child sexual abuse during his years-long tenure as a leader in the Roman Catholic Church.
In December of 2010, a technician discovered graphic child pornography on a laptop belonging to Father Shawn Ratigan, a then-priest in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, whose parish was adjacent to a Catholic elementary school. Ratigan’s photographs featured images of underage parishioners in various states of disrobe.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/victims-warn-children-still-face-danger-of-abuse-despite-long-awaited-ouster-of-kansas-city-bishop/