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	Contempt Hearing Set for Socal Bishop in Sex Abuse Case Associated Press, carried in San Jose Mercury News October 1, 2007 http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7054701?nclick_check=1 SANTA ANA, Calif.—A judge has scheduled a hearing for next week to determine whether Orange County's Roman Catholic bishop should be held in contempt of court for allegedly sending a witness out of the country before he could fully testify in a sex abuse case. Orange County Superior Court Judge Gail Andler set a hearing date of Oct. 9 for Bishop Tod D. Brown, according to attorneys for both Brown and the plaintiff. Brown must be present at the contempt hearing. Attorneys for a woman who sued over alleged sexual abuse asked for hearing after a high-ranking church official left for Canada for treatment of an undisclosed medical condition before he could be fully deposed in the case. Plaintiff's attorney Venus Soltan alleges that Brown ordered Msgr. John Urell, who handled sexual abuse allegations against the diocese, to leave the country because he had potentially damaging information about sex abuse cases.
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