Victims Group Forced to Open Files

By Ben Kesling And Mark Peters
Wall Street Journal
August 14, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444042704577589520885849532.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Missouri's Supreme Court let stand a lower-court ruling that a support group for alleged victims of the Roman Catholic Church sexual-abuse scandal must open its records in a case raising questions about the privacy rights of crime victims.

The high court on Tuesday denied a petition filed by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, forcing the group to comply with a subpoena to turn over more than two decades of records sought by lawyers for the Rev. Michael Tierney. The Kansas City-area priest has been accused in civil court of sexually abusing a minor in the early 1970s. ...