MaggieD
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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...
Read more: Kansas City Bishop Is First To Be Charged Criminally With Sheltering Abusive Clergyman | Fox News
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?