The Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program announced
Thursday by Timothy Cardinal Dolan does not help clergy sexual abuse
victims truly heal and gain closure.
It fails to fulfill the emotional and spiritual needs of clergy sexual abuse victims to get to the truth found in the secret documents and files of the Archdiocese of New York. Those documents will tell us the crimes committed by pedophile priests and the supervisors who knowingly let innocent children be sexually abused for decades upon decades. By avoiding the process of discovery in legal proceedings, the archdiocese will also avoid making public documents and witness testimony that details what church officials knew about sexual abuse and when they knew it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sex-abuse-victims-truth-not-cash-archdiocese-article-1.2820725
It fails to fulfill the emotional and spiritual needs of clergy sexual abuse victims to get to the truth found in the secret documents and files of the Archdiocese of New York. Those documents will tell us the crimes committed by pedophile priests and the supervisors who knowingly let innocent children be sexually abused for decades upon decades. By avoiding the process of discovery in legal proceedings, the archdiocese will also avoid making public documents and witness testimony that details what church officials knew about sexual abuse and when they knew it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sex-abuse-victims-truth-not-cash-archdiocese-article-1.2820725