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	Victim's Mother Testifies at Church Trial for Pa. Bishop CBS 21 June 9, 2008 http://www.whptv.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=84c7a313-bb9e-455a-a581-45c01d126bd5 [with link to the presentment against Bishop Bennison] PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A mother says a bishop accused of concealing sexual abuse of her daughter once told her that he knew about the abuse but didn't think it was up to him to tell the family. The testimony came as a church trial opened for Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. He is accused of concealing the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl by his brother, then a lay minister at a California church where Bennison was rector. A panel of bishops, priests and church members will decide whether Bennison, the leader of the nation's fifth-largest Episcopal diocese, may resume his duties. The mother of the victim, who is now 50, testified that she found out about the abuse when her daughter was in college and asked Bennison about it. She says he told her he had known about it, but thought it was the girl's place to tell her family. Presentment against Bishop Bennison
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