TOPEKA (KS)
The Topeka Capital-Journal
August 21, 2018
By Katie Moore
In the wake of a call for a statewide investigation into sexual abuse by Catholic priests, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt urged victims to contact the state’s victim assistance hotline.
The hotline can be reached at (800) 828-9745 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
“I admire and encourage those victims of childhood sexual abuse who continue to choose to come forward, sometimes after many years have passed,” Schmidt said in a statement. “The physical or sexual abuse of a child is a serious crime in Kansas.”
On Monday, attorney Rebecca Randles said her firm identified 238 priests accused of abuse from five dioceses in Kansas and Missouri. Joined by four survivors, Randles urged the attorney generals in Kansas and Missouri to convene large-scale investigations similar to the grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania which discovered more than 1,000 victims.
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