Files Further Document the Evidence of Cover-up and Callous Disregard for Safety of Children

Law Offices of Raymond Boucher
September 9, 2013

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After eleven years of litigation and a six year battle over the release of files, the more than 600 victims of clergy sexual abuse have secured for publication, additional confidential files which reveal a painful history of cover-up and betrayal by the Catholic Church. The confidential files were turned over to the victims as part of global settlement with the Archdiocese by the Vincentians, Augustinians and Norbertines.

"One needs only to compare the just released file from the Vincentian Order on Carlos Rodriguez with the Archdiocese's prior "full and complete" disclosure of this serial child molesting priest to grasp the extent to which the Catholic Church was involved in a cover-up. The file's show clearly the Church was more concerned about "scandal" than the safety of minors" said Raymond Boucher.

"These files underscore the churches preoccupation with protecting its image in the face of "scandal". It shows a church so indoctrinated with the view of protecting itself that they allowed heinous sexual acts to be committed upon the very children whose care they were entrusted with," Boucher said.

"That's the irony in all of this. In their vain attempts to protect the image of the church, they've tarnished it beyond repair."