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	Archbishop Defends Handling of Abuse Claims New Haven Register December 1, 2009 http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/12/01/news/doc4b158439da494287642024.txt HARTFORD (AP) — Recently retired New York Cardinal Edward Egan steadfastly defends priests in the Bridgeport diocese and his handling of abuse allegations while he was bishop there, saying that charges of sexual misconduct were rarely proven to be trueEgan makes the claims in a 1999 deposition, one of thousands of documents that were made public on Tuesday. Egan told attorneys that he "does not take every claim against every human being as a proved misdeed." He also remarked it was "marvelous" that so few priests have been accused of misconduct and how few of those claims were proven. The Bridgeport diocese turned over to court officials more than 12,000 pages from 23 lawsuits against six priests settled by the diocese in 2001
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