NEW: West Virginia AG says church leaders in his state are withholding information that could prove useful in exposing “a history of secrecy and concealment” within the Catholic Church on alleged sexual abuse.
West Virginia’s attorney general says church leaders in his state are withholding information that could prove useful in his fight to expose what he called “a history of secrecy and concealment” within the Catholic Church on alleged sexual abuse by members of the clergy.
West Virginia is one of several states to probe abuse allegations in their local dioceses in wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing a massive cover-up of clergy abuse allegations by the Catholic Church. Investigations are currently underway in Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, the District of Columbia and the Archdiocese of Anchorage in Alaska.
And he “certainly wouldn’t be surprised,” he said, if the names of additional allegedly abusive priests were revealed in the process. And finally, the office pushed for the release of the full report compiled by Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore -- who oversees the diocese. The report was submitted to the Congregation for Bishops about Bishop Michael Bransfield, who resigned last year as head of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
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