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  Kansas Bishop Indicted on Charges of Failing to Report Sex Abuse

By Annysa Johnson
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 14, 2011

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/131882093.html

A grand jury in Kansas City has indicted the Catholic bishop and diocese there on misdemeanor charges of failure to report child abuse, the Kansas City Star and national news organizations are reporting. Bishop Robert Finn, leader of the 134,000-member diocese, is the highest-ranking Catholic official in the nation to face criminal prosecution in a child sexual abuse case, they said.

 
 

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