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April 23, 2010

Vatican Sued for Alleged Cover-Up of Sexual Abuse
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An Illinois resident is suing the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI for
allegedly covering up sexual molestation that occurred for two decades
at a Wisconsin Catholic school. Internal documents released last month
showed Vatican officials, including the future pope, decided not to
defrock the Wisconsin-based priest Father Lawrence Murphy despite
evidence he had molested as many 200 deaf boys. The unnamed plaintiff
says he was one of Murphy’s victims. He also says he wrote the Vatican
about Murphy in 1995—one year earlier than when Vatican officials say
they were first informed.



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