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  Morning Star Told to Release Boys' Records

By Benjamin Shors
Spokesman Review [Washington]
May 5, 2007

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A Spokane County Superior Court judge has ordered Morning Star Boys' Ranch to release more than 1,000 personal files of former residents to attorneys who represent seven men who say they were sexually abused.

Judge Harold Clarke reminded attorneys Friday of the "utmost sensitivity" of the files, which may contain medical, educational and personal information on former residents who are not involved in the case.

"I can't overemphasize how sensitive these materials are," Clarke said.

The personal files may contain "thousands and thousands" of pages of documents regarding men who once lived at the Catholic boys home, which opened in 1956. The ranch has worked with 1,300 boys in the past 50 years.

 
 

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