BOSTON (MA)
UPI
July 23, 2018
[See the Reilly Report, referenced in this UPI feature and lying next to the demonstrator in the photo. In 2008, the Boston archdiocese counted 1,476 cases.]
On July 23, 2003, the Massachusetts attorney general said an investigation indicated nearly 1,000 cases of abuse by Roman Catholic priests and other church personnel in the Boston diocese over 60 years.
Photo Caption: A protester adds the name of a defrocked priest to the top of the “Cross of Shame” on July 30, 2003, outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. On July 23, 2003, the Massachusetts attorney general said an investigation indicated nearly 1,000 cases of abuse by Roman Catholic priests and other church personnel in the Boston diocese over 60 years.
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