Thursday, February 20, 2014

Cardinal Roger Mahony lied

LA Archbishop Cardinal Roger Mahony lied to investigators by withholding a list of allegedly abused alter boys. Now why would a good Catholic do that?

When Los Angeles police were investigating allegations of child abuse by a Roman Catholic priest in 1988, they asked for a list of altar boys at the last parish where the priest worked.

Archbishop Roger Mahony told a subordinate not to give the list, saying he didn’t want the boys to be scarred by the investigation and that he felt the altar boys were too old to be potential victims, according to a deposition made public on Wednesday.

The detectives investigating allegations against Nicolás Aguilar Rivera, a visiting Mexican priest, ultimately got the names of the boys from parish families. They determined that the priest molested at least 26 boys in his 10 months in Los Angeles, according to the priest’s confidential archdiocese file and police records made public by attorneys for the victims.

Source: La archbishop withheld list of allegedly abused altar boys as police investigated

Who benefited from the omission? It seems obvious is that the answer is the Catholic church. That is disgusting. Mahony should be prosecuted. 

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