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Sunday, July 17, 2005

Abuse Victims Target Fugitive Priests

Vatican City --

American victims of clergy sex abuse urged church officials Wednesday to help extradite accused priests who fled to their religious orders in Rome or to foreign countries to escape punishment.

Barbara Blaine, founder of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said religious leaders have a moral obligation to help prosecutors in these cases, so children are not at risk.

The place where these men should be is almost anywhere except Rome, said Blaine, speaking at a news conference in a hotel near St. Peter’s Square. This is not about punishment. This is merely about prevention.

The Dallas Morning News reported last year that some religious orders were sheltering accused priests in Rome.

Read the article at CBS 2 Dated April 13, 2005
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