Sex Abuse Crisis: Sex abuse sparks program
Portland, Oregon -
THE PORTLAND archdiocese, pressured by a lawsuit against a parish priest, has begun an extensive education program about sex abuse.
The priest, 57-year-old Thomas Laughlin, was sentenced Aug. 29 to one year in a Portland jail on a misdemeanor sex abuse charge and ordered into subsequent treatment at Foundation House, a New Mexican treatment facility for priests.
The education program comes after an admission by Archbishop Cornelius M. Power that he had been informed in 1981 of the priest's involvement with a boy under the age of 18.
But the education program and the priest's sentence will only partially alleviate, it appears, what one diocesan priest described as "a severe credibility problem" for the archbishop for his handling of the situation.
Read the article at The National Catholic Reporter dated September 23, 1983
THE PORTLAND archdiocese, pressured by a lawsuit against a parish priest, has begun an extensive education program about sex abuse.
The priest, 57-year-old Thomas Laughlin, was sentenced Aug. 29 to one year in a Portland jail on a misdemeanor sex abuse charge and ordered into subsequent treatment at Foundation House, a New Mexican treatment facility for priests.
The education program comes after an admission by Archbishop Cornelius M. Power that he had been informed in 1981 of the priest's involvement with a boy under the age of 18.
But the education program and the priest's sentence will only partially alleviate, it appears, what one diocesan priest described as "a severe credibility problem" for the archbishop for his handling of the situation.
Read the article at The National Catholic Reporter dated September 23, 1983
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