Church audit subject to state standards
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester must have its sexual abuse policies audited according to the standards of state prosecutors, a judge has ruled.
Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Carol Ann Conboy’s ruling, handed down Tuesday, most likely breaks a stalemate that prevented church and state from fully enacting an agreement the diocese signed in 2002 to avoid criminal indictments on child endangerment.
Both sides had differing interpretations of the scope of the auditing, and placed their two-year impasse in the hands of the court.
Read the article at The Telegraph Online dated Mar. 23, 2005
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