Document 5
Letter from Scott Hicks to Cardinal Roger Mahony, Alleging Sexual Abuse by Bishop Tod D. Brown
March 10, 2002

This letter was posted by the Orange County Weekly to accompany Gustavo Arellano's article "Nailed? Bishop Tod Brown and His Undisclosed Molestation Accusation," OC Weekly, April 24, 2007. The name of the person making the allegation against Brown was initially redacted from this and other letters. Then Brown's accuser went public (see O.C. Bishop's Accuser Identifies Himself, by Christine Hanley, Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2007). See Msgr. Craig A. Cox's reply.