BOSTON (MA)
The Guardian
Tuesday February 28, 2006 9:01 PM
By JAY LINDSAY
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Archdiocese still hasn't implemented key reforms promised three years ago in its plan to prevent the sexual abuse of children by church personnel, according to the state attorney general's office.
In a letter to a church committee, Attorney General Tom Reilly's office criticized the failure of the Roman Catholic archdiocese to devise a system that tracks abusive priests. It also said the archdiocese hadn't implemented sexual abuse prevention programs for adolescents and teens in its schools and religious education programs.
The lack of followthrough ``have us questioning the archdiocese's commitment and whether it learned any lessons at all from the tragedy that led us to issue our report in 2003,'' according to the letter from Alice Moore, chief of the attorney general's Public Protection Bureau.
Kelly Lynch, a spokesman for the archdiocese, said Archbishop Sean O'Malley is committed to protecting children from abusers. ``He continues to recognize that, while much has been accomplished, more must be done,'' she said.