MONTANA
Great Falls Tribune
This week eight more people joined a lawsuit claiming the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena knew or should have known that clergy were committing sexual abuse.
That’s not surprising. Attorneys are aggressively working to give victims the opportunity to join class action suits, spreading the word with letters to pools of people that may include victims and running newspaper advertisements.
Abuse, including sexual abuse, within the Catholic church is no longer a poorly kept secret, as many of such lawsuits allege was the case in the past.
Worldwide closet doors swung open, victims told their stories and in some cases, perpetrators of the crimes went to jail.
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