ALBUQUERQUE (NM)
KOAT Action 7 News
October 19, 2017
By Nancy Laflin
There are new developments in a disturbing case involving Catholic priests in New Mexico — a judge is allowing hundreds of pages of court records to be unsealed.
Attorneys involved in this case say the documents detail that the Catholic Church was put on notice of predatory priests dating back to the 1960’s. Many of them were sent to New Mexico and ended up in parishes throughout the state.
For years KOAT has been telling you about a place called the Servants of the Paraclete. Priests from all across the country were sent to northern New Mexico for counseling and therapy, including priests who were accused of sexually molesting children.
Now unsealed documents detail exactly what happened in those cases — dating back decades.
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