Malooly Won't Ask for Resignations of Priests Accused in Clergy Sex Abuse Cover-up

By Amy Cherry
WDEL
February 24, 2012

http://www.wdel.com/story.php?id=41049

[letter from Bishop Malooly]

[Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up in the Diocese of Wilmington via BishopAccountability.org]

Bishop Francis Malooly

Bishop Francis Malooly says he won't ask for the resignations of three priests accused of masterminding a cover-up of decades of sexual abuse.

After shocking documents were released last week as part of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's settlement with victims of abuse, survivors of sexual abuse called for Monsignors Cini, Lemon, and Rebman to step down.

In a letter posted on the Dialog, the Diocese's newspaper, Malooly says the priests have his "full support and gratitude."

Malooly calls the three priests "dedicated" and says none of them engineered a strategy to conceal priest sex abuse nor have they ever put children at risk.