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Judge punishes diocese of Catholic bishops' leader - Contempt citation issued over records of priest accused of abuse Laurie Goodstein, New York Times 5/2/04 "The Roman Catholic diocese led by Bishop Wilton Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been held in contempt of court for refusing to release the mental health records of a retired priest accused of child sexual abuse. The judge ordered the diocese, in Belleville, Ill., and the priest, the Rev. Raymond Kownacki, to release the files, pay a $2,000 fine and reimburse the plaintiff for legal fees. The diocese is appealing the ruling." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/02/MNGCB6EEP81.DTL
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Shame, Sin and Secrets 12/1/02 - How the Catholic Church in Toledo Covered Up the Sexual Abuse of Children by Priests (archives) http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SRSHAME
Shame, Sin and Secrets By Michael D. Sallah and David Yonke "In every decade since the 1950s, there have been at least two examples of priests or others entrusted with the care of minors accused of forcing the youngsters into sex acts, but the diocese failed to notify police. Instead, the abusers were moved to new churches or schools - sometimes after therapy - and in some cases, only to rape and abuse again." http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021201/SRSHAME/112010122
New book delves into Fernald's cruel past By Scott Allen, Globe Staff 5/1/04 "Fernald's isolation made the children an easy mark for abuse, including nutrition experiments in which children were fed bowls of slightly radioactive oatmeal to make their digestion easier to track. After the research became public a decade ago, Boyce and other members of the so-called Fernald Science Club won a settlement of $3 million from MIT and Quaker Oats, which carried out and funded the experiments, as well as from the state and federal governments. But now, as the decaying Victorian campus in Waltham prepares to close permanently, it's clear that the radiation experiments were part of a lifetime of hardships that cannot be compensated by settlement shares of $50,000 to $65,000 per person. For instance, Boyce, who was "paroled" from Fernald in 1961, can't afford to leave his job running a carnival concession booth, even though he is suffering from advanced colon cancer. "They are the last victims of eugenics," said D'Antonio, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for Newsday in New York who gained access to case files of science club members showing that teachers and other staff members came to doubt that many of them were mentally disabled. Massachusetts officials acknowledged that in 1949, the year Boyce was admitted, about 8 percent of children in state schools were not mentally retarded or were normal. In fact, D'Antonio found an account of a 1940 meeting in which the superintendent said the school needed high-functioning residents for cheap labor." http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/05/01/cruel_past?pg=full
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