Posted on 12/11/2019 6:09:06 PM PST by marshmallow
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, along with the other 5 dioceses in California, will be subpoenaed for additional records as the state attorney general continues to investigate whether dioceses complied with mandatory reporting requirements.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced in May he would investigate all of California’s Roman Catholic dioceses to ensure that church officials followed state law and reported sexual misconduct allegations to law enforcement.
The announcement of that investigation came after Becerra’s office began requesting that victims of clergy sex abuse submit complaints to his office last year.
The Sacramento diocese, along with five other dioceses, began voluntarily turning over records to the state agency in May, according to Bishop Jaime Soto in a statement Friday. The five other diocese subpoenaed are Fresno, San Jose, Orange and the archdioceses of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
“We share the attorney general’s desire to conduct a thorough examination of the practices and procedures that seek to protect the children entrusted to our schools, churches and programs,” Soto stated.
Last week, the attorney general’s office told the Sacramento diocese that it would issue subpoenas for additional records, according to Soto.
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Planned Parenthood appears to be exempted from hearings when they avoid mandatory reporting laws.
They have been caught coaching young girls to lie.
Hope this all resolves.
It must be said though, that the scandals have not affected church attendance in the least, as far as Los Angeles is concerned anyway. There is a major priest shortage and a high demand for weekday masses and weekly confessions.
Imagine if Becerra had gone after Epstein with the same emphasis? Yeah, too close to home
just horrible when the government goes after clergy
but MAYBE this is to be expected?? after so many years of alleged abuses>?????
i am still concerned
Fine. Get all the child predators in the government school system, too, while you’re at it.
Here it comes.
The Obama threat to the Catholic Church to back him or else is coming true.
This is just the beginning.
CA is going to try and crush the Catholic Church under $1B lawsuit and their only way out was to back illegal immigration and Global Warming.
They have been caught coaching young girls to lie.
Repeat customers are any business’s bread and butter.
If a girl’s abuser goes to jail that girl is less likely to come back.
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