Catholic Church in Illinois Withheld Names of at Least 500 Priests Accused of Abuse, Attorney General Says
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, center, the archbishop of Chicago. “I want to express again the profound regret of the whole church for our failures to address the scourge of clerical sexual abuse,” he said in a statement
The
Catholic Church in Illinois withheld the names of at least 500 priests
accused of sexual abuse of minors, the state’s attorney general said
Wednesday in a scathing report that accused the church of failing
victims by neglecting to investigate their allegations.
The
preliminary report by Attorney General Lisa Madigan concludes that the
Catholic dioceses in Illinois are incapable of investigating themselves
and “will not resolve the clergy sexual abuse crisis on their own.”
Cardinal
Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said in a statement, “I
want to express again the profound regret of the whole church for our
failures to address the scourge of clerical sexual abuse.
“It is the courage of victim-survivors that has shed purifying light on this dark chapter in church history.”
Ms.
Madigan, a Democrat who served four terms as Illinois’ attorney general
and is the daughter of the state’s powerful and longtime speaker of the
House, is days away from leaving office. She chose not to run again.
Kwame
Raoul, a fellow Democrat who will replace Ms. Madigan in January, said
he was committed to continuing the investigation Ms. Madigan had begun.
He said he would work closely with prosecutors around the state on the
issue.
“Today’s news demonstrates the
need for ongoing diligence in investigating crimes against children
taking place within institutions that do not have a history of
unilateral, proactive transparency,” he said in a statement, in which he
praised Ms. Madigan for initiating the investigation.
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Parents from one yeshiva and administrators from another spoke to the board about the fines, trying to understand why the county was penalizing the schools.
"You're playing with people's lives here," cried Michal Kofman, whose five daughters go to the Skill Building Center, Yeshiva Aitz Chaim Bnos Bracha. "It makes no sense ... that our children should be forced to stay home. When I called the public school, they said my children could go to public school the next day. Why can't they go to my own Jewish school?"
She argued that the state vaccination records were not up to date and therefore schools with more than an 80 percent vaccination rate were being penalized.
One man was escorted out of the meeting for speaking out of turn after shouting multiple times at the board "you're not telling the truth."
Another parent from the Skill Building Center, Daniel Berch, said the orders to yeshivas were anti-Semitic, which was immediately shot down by the chairman of the health board, Dr. Jeffrey Oppenheim.
"I’m bothered by any insinuation that we’re picking on these yeshivas," Oppenheim said. "If we were ignoring it, that would be discriminatory. What we're trying to do here is protect people. This is the antithesis of discrimination."
And then the Chicago archdiocese has the audacity to not discuss the findings of the Illinois Attorney General at their conclave in January....
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/12/21/bishops-wont-discuss-clergy-abuse-report-at-retreat/
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