BOISE (ID)
Idaho Statesman
May 24, 2018
By Ruth Brown
The Catholic Church’s former habit of moving priests suspected of child abuse apparently stymied a 1990s investigation in Boise.
The account of the Boise Police detective who pursued the case offers an example of how the church’s former policies complicated even police efforts to investigate abuse claims.
The Rev. James Worsley was accused of molesting altar boys in the 1970s.
In 1993, Boise Police Detective Bob Mack spoke with one of those boys, who claimed he was abused at St. Paul’s Catholic Center. The victim, by then 27, told Mack of “approximately 100 episodes of genital fondling and fellatio” between 1975 and 1980, according to a copy of the police report.
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