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Kansas City Bishop Is First to Be Charged Criminally With Sheltering Abusive Clergyma

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City's Catholic bishop was charged Friday with not telling police about child pornography found on a priest's computer, making him the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic official indicted on a charge of failing to protect children. Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese Bishop Robert Finn, the first U.S. bishop criminally charged with sheltering an abusive clergyman, pleaded not guilty to one misdemeanor count of failing to report suspected child abuse. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Finn and his diocese, which also was charged with one count, had "reasonable cause" to suspect a child had been abused after learning of the images...


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It's about time.

I hope this is the first of dozens and dozens of prosecutions against the hierarchy in the Catholic church that intentionally and wantonly covered for these pedophiles. Cheers to the Kansas City, MO D.A.!!!!

Anybody as gleeful as Maggie?
 
Re: Kansas City Bishop Is First to Be Charged Criminally With Sheltering Abusive Cler

I think it's great. The Catholic Church was gave chance after chance to deal with this themselves. It seems they won't. Hopefully they set an example here.
 
Re: Kansas City Bishop Is First to Be Charged Criminally With Sheltering Abusive Cler

MaggieD said:
It's about time.

I hope this is the first of dozens and dozens of prosecutions against the hierarchy in the Catholic church that intentionally and wantonly covered for these pedophiles. Cheers to the Kansas City, MO D.A.!!!!

Anybody as gleeful as Maggie?
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Hopefully this sets an example that harboring or hiding child molesters will get you into trouble and will not be tolerated.
 
Re: Kansas City Bishop Is First to Be Charged Criminally With Sheltering Abusive Cler

About ****ing time, we should prosecute everyone who breaks the law, especially crimes like this.
 
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