ALASKA
Reveal/PRX
December 15, 2018
By Emily Schwing at the Northwest News Network, with Reveal’s Michael Corey and Katharine Mieszkowski.
Listeners should know that this episode looks at how the Catholic Church handled cases of children who were sexually abused by Jesuit priests.
The show includes descriptions of abuse and predatory behavior and is not a story for all listeners.
The host gives a listening advisory at the top of each segment.
In Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, the Catholic Church had a problem with Jesuit priests sexually abusing children. The church’s first solution was to send the priests to remote Native villages, but there, they continued to abuse. So the church tried something else: hiding them in plain sight.
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