MINNESOTA
WTAQ
Thursday, October 24, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic archbishop of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Archdiocese said on Thursday that serious mistakes had been made in the archdiocese’s investigations of allegations of sex abuse by clergy and he has ordered a review of all of its files by an outside firm.
“To those who have been hurt, to the victims of clergy abuse and their family members, I can only tell you how sorry I am,” Archbishop John Nienstedt said in the archdiocese’s official publication. “I realize how damaging such actions are in violating the care of their human dignity.”
But David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said Nienstedt’s review plan would only result in more secrecy and his statement did not reveal the names of sexual predators.
“He knows who should look at these records, the cops,” Clohessy said. “But he continues to act irresponsibly, to protect the predators and to endanger kids.”
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