Associated Press Dec. 10
LOS ANGELES - Cardinal Roger Mahony defended his handling of abusive clergy in a deposition transcript released Thursday, saying as bishop of Stockton in the 1980s he immediately dismissed two visiting Mexican priests accused of sexually molesting children.
In wide-ranging and often combative testimony, the leader of the nation's largest archdiocese drew a distinction between those situations and the case of the Rev. Oliver O'Grady, another Stockton priest investigated for molestation around the same time.
Posted by dcoday at December 10, 2004 08:10 AM