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Bishop: 33 abused by 16 priests in Indiana diocese By Ken Kusmer AP 12/11/03 "Sixteen priests sexually abused 33 children in the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in the past 53 years, Bishop John D'Arcy announced Thursday, making the most public accounting yet of the clergy scandal in an Indiana diocese. All but two of the victims were physically abused, including 15 during the 1980s, but none since 1987, D'Arcy said in a statement released at a news conference in South Bend. Two other children were the targets of ``flirtatious'' but nonphysical activity by a single priest in the 1990s. The sexual abuse has cost the diocese and its insurers $1.36 million, of which $633,963, or nearly half, has gone to victims, D'Arcy said." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-031211priestabuse,1,2672152.story?coll=chi-newslocal-hed
A priest, a boy, a mystery By Kevin Cullen, 12/14/03 "Danny Croteau was 13 when they found his body, floating face down in the Chicopee River, a few miles from his Springfield home. That was 31 years ago....It is not only the Croteaus who believe that the Rev. Richard R. Lavigne, a convicted child molester, murdered their son in 1972....Just about every law enforcement official who worked on the case believes Lavigne did it. To this day, the case remains open, and the priest is, as he has been for three decades, the only suspect, according to law enforcement sources....more certain is that the Diocese of Springfield knew Lavigne was a suspect, and knew of sexual abuse complaints against him, and yet allowed him access as a priest to children for 20 years after the murder. During that time, according to police who have investigated him and the nearly 40 people who have filed lawsuits against him, Lavigne abused scores of children. In 1992 he was convicted of fondling two boys and sentenced to probation. In 1994 the diocese paid $1.4 million to settle claims brought by 17 people who said Lavigne abused them, and Lavigne now faces another 20 claims. The Massachusetts Sex Offenders Registry Board classified Lavigne as a Level 3 offender, meaning he is deemed a high risk to reoffend." http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/12/14/a_priest_a_boy_a_mystery/
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030410-070214-6557r
Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot By Richard Sale
UPI Intelligence Correspondent Published 4/10/2003 7:30 PM
U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, according to former U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials.
While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
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