Victims’ lawyers have accused the football team of helping the church with its “pattern and practice of concealing its crimes.”
the team’s involvement in the sex abuse scandal last week, alleging that the team had helped the archdiocese with damage control around the release of its list of alleged abusers. At the time, the victims’ lawyers accused the team of helping the church with its “pattern and practice of concealing its crimes.”
But according to the AP, the emails show more than help with damage control. The lawyers claimed that one email mentioned that the Saints’ senior vice president of communications had met with an unnamed third party to discuss “removing priests from the pedophile list.” As the plaintiffs’ lawyers pointed out, if the Saints were involved with making the list, it would mean that people associated with the team weighed in on the credibility of certain accusations or accusers.
In 2018, the New Orleans archdiocese named 57 priests it believed were credibly accused of sexual abuse. Six more names have since been added, but according to the AP, the number would still leave the archdiocese’s rate of accused priests below the estimated average across the country.
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