UNITED STATES
City of Angels
Kay Ebeling
MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013
(Rerun from July 2012, as City of Angels Blog is on hiatus until the end of summer)
Mainstream media has barely reported the story of pedophile priests in the Catholic Church. Most coverage is little more than a surface headline and paragraphs from press releases. As a result most of the stories of hundreds of thousands of children abusedby thousands of Catholic priests have not yet been told.
An in depth look at cases in each city, such as a true crime series based on reports at City of Angels Blog, would highlight patterns in these crimes, maybe even lead to a deeper investigation of the hierarchy’s cover-up of these crimes and federal prosecution.
After interviewing hundreds of pedophile priest victims for this blog since January 2007, and after watching the shallow coverage of these crimes in mainstream media, I know we could produce original episodes for years about these crimes, and never run out of new material. Here is a sampling of stories I published at City of Angels Blog in recent years, that lend themselves to true crime series coverage:
From Boston: First Posted at City of Angels January 16, 2010:
*6000 is number of Pedophile Priests in U.S. Catholic Church since 1950. Found so far. And still counting
“This year the number will go over 6,000,” Terry McKiernan, president of Bishop Accountability in Boston, emailed me early this month. After we posted “The Public Has a Right to Know how Six Thousand Priests Got Away with Pedophilia” Jan. 2, people
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