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	A Record of Abuse Contra Costa Times March 28, 2008 http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_8733105?nclick_check=1 On a March night two years ago, Bishop Allen Vigneron arrived at St. Raymond's in Dublin to do what he had done so many times in previous months: apologize. "The record of clerical sexual abuse of children and young people is a heavy burden - a burden for all Catholics in the United States, a burden for the Church in Oakland, and surely a great burden for all who have been directly involved in that history," he told the congregation. What was left unsaid, however, was that the record of abuse in the Diocese of Oakland has never been fully disclosed. In the most extensive examination to date of clergy child sex abuse in the diocese - which includes Alameda and Contra Costa counties, and was part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco until 1962 - MediaNews reporters examined tens of thousands of pages of court and church records, police reports and other documents, and they interviewed victims, experts and diocese officials. The first of a four-part series starts Sunday.
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