LOS ANGELES (CA)
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Provided By: The Associated Press
Last Modified: 12/9/2004 10:21:26 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The leader of the nation's largest archdiocese says he responded quickly and decisively in a sexual abuse scandal in the 1980s, when as a bishop he dismissed two visiting Mexican priests accused of molesting children.
In a deposition transcript released Thursday, Cardinal Roger Mahony said the cases were different, however, than that of another priest investigated for molestation in Stockton, where Mahony was bishop at the time.
After a psychological evaluation and a police inquiry, Mahony transferred the priest, the Rev. Oliver O'Grady, to a rural parish in the Sierra foothill community of San Andreas. Two of O'Grady's alleged victims later claimed the molestation continued after the transfer.
Posted by kshaw at December 10, 2004 09:02 AM