MEMPHIS (TN)
Commerical Appeal
By Bill Dries
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December 11, 2004
The District Attorney General's office and Memphis Catholic church officials plan to meet later this month to talk about why the diocese hasn't reported child sexual abuse allegations to authorities.
Assistant District Attorney General Kevin Rardin said a member of the Diocesan Review Board contacted him this week about a meeting "to try to come up with a policy that everybody can agree on."
Diocesan spokesman Father John Geaney said Catholic Bishop J. Terry Steib requested the meeting and that there is no agenda yet.
The session, which was still being scheduled Friday, comes after church officials said last week that parts of state law requiring them to report such abuse didn't apply in the cases of two priests accused years ago of sexually abusing children.
Posted by kshaw at December 11, 2004 12:16 AM