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	Instant Editorial: Setting a Bad Example on Child Abuse By Mark Stephens News-Press August 7, 2008 http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080807/OPINION/80807048/1075 Organizations such as churches and schools with the responsibility of protecting and nurturing children should respond honestly and vigorously when child abuse is discovered in their own ranks. They should set an example of not only how to care for children but how to confront and uproot child abuse. Some Catholics have struggled to rid their church of the plague of child-abuse by priests, but the case of The Rev. Dennis Killion is a depressing reminder of how much more work is to be done. Lawyers for victims who say they were sexually abused by Killion in Delaware have released documents that suggest that church officials knew about the allegations years before a lawsuit was filed Monday. That's when the church officials claim they first knew of the allegations against Killion, who continued to work at other schools, including Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. Is the church still refusing to root out abuse, and instead covering it up while shuffling suspect priests from assignment to assignment?
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