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Diocese puts a lawyer in charge of its hot line
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn has set up a hot line for people to report sexual abuse by a priest. But in a decision that has provoked anger among some advocates for victims, it has appointed a lawyer to take the calls. The advocates say that the arrangement is a recipe for further suffering. A lawyer, they say, has little of the professional compassion needed by abuse victims, could very well act more in the interest of the diocese and makes a mockery of the promise by the nation's bishops to put pastoral care above legal strategy in dealing with people who say priests sexually molested them. Posted by Editor at August 31, 2004 07:09 AM