December 01, 2009
Diocesan Documents On Clergy Sex Abuse To Be Released
BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut -- Catholics in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport -- and the public at large -- may get their first look at how Bishops Walter Curtis and Edward Egan dealt with accusations that diocesan priests abused children over more than three decades when nearly 12,000 pages of secret documents are released Tuesday. Unsealing the documents ends a seven-year-long legal battle that began in state Superior Court when several newspapers filed suit to force their release. The dispute wound its way to the U.S. Supreme Court where justices last month refused to hear the diocese's appeal to keep the documents private.Click Here For The Full Story......