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Prosecutors Plan To Show ‘Diocese-Wide Policy’ In Priest Sex Abuse Case

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – While the unprecedented clergy abuse trial of former Monsignor William Lynn and two priests is set to begin Monday, the latest pre-trial hearing in the case makes...

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Trial For 2 In Philadelphia Priest Sex Abuse Case Gets Underway

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A trial began today in an unprecedented case of a priest charged with raping a boy and a monsignor charged with endangering children as part of what authorities say...

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Prosecutors Of Philadelphia Priests Raise Decades Of Buried Abuse Cases

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The prosecution in the Philadelphia clergy sex abuse case has alleged a history of coverup and enabling by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (see related stories)....

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Focus at Philadelphia Priests’ Sex Abuse Trial: Who Was In Charge?

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Evidence in the Philadelphia clergy child-abuse case today has focused on who was in charge — who was responsible for the placement and transfer of alleged and...

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Expert On Church Law Testifies In Priest Sex Abuse Case

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – An expert in Catholicism and church law, testifying in the clergy abuse case, has provided damning testimony of past conduct of Philadelphia Archdiocesan officials...

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Philly Priest Sex Abuse Case: Witness Alleges ‘Rotation’ Of Molestation Of Boys

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — As the trial of a Philadelphia monsignor and a priest accused of child sex abuse and cover-ups moves forward, a second man testified Wednesday he was part of a...

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W. Va. Bishop Issues Scathing Rebuttal To Accusations Raised In Phila. Sex...

By Mark Abrams PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston (W.Va.) is denying he ever sexually abused anyone, and says he was not aware that abuse of children was taking place...

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W. Va. Priest Will Testify At Trial of Philadelphia Priest Accused of Sex Abuse

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — One day after a West Virginia bishop responded to sex abuse allegations in the Philadelphia clergy abuse case (see related story), another issue related to the...

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More Shocking Testimony In Philadelphia Priest Sex Abuse Case

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Another stunning allegation was disclosed during testimony today in the Philadelphia clergy sex abuse case: an attempted gang rape at the St. Charles Borromeo...

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Philadelphia Child Sex Abuse Trial Revisits 2008 Church Probe of Accused Priest

By Tony Hanson and Pat Ciarrocchi PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The prosecution in the Philadelphia clergy sex abuse case today shifted its attention back to defendant James Brennan, who is accused of sexually...

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Witness In Clergy Sex Abuse Case: ‘Priests Aren’t Supposed To Do Wrong’

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The jury in the clergy abuse case hears emotional testimony from two more alleged victims, men who say they were abused by a priest in the early 1980’s. The...

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Philadelphia Archbishop Chaput To Announce Abuse Findings

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput has many constituents to consider as he decides the fate of about two dozen priests suspended over child sex-abuse allegations. The priests...

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Prosecutors: Priest Began Abusing Young Girls In The 60’s

By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Jurors in the clergy abuse case have pored over church documents to look at the career of a defrocked priest, who is not on trial. The prosecution was attempting to...

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Private Eye Says He Verified Philadelphia Priest’s Child Abuse at Start of...

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The jury in the Philadelphia clergy abuse case heard today from a private investigator hired by the Philadelphia Archdiocese, who testified to finding credible...

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Witness Testifies He Was Victim Of ‘Depraved And Sadistic Conduct’ At Hand Of...

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The jury in the clergy abuse case hears evidence of what a grand jury called ‘depraved and sadistic conduct’ related to a Passion Play, depicting the events leading...

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Witnesses Testify Priests Remained In Ministry Despite Reports Of Abuse

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The jury in the clergy abuse case has heard detailed testimony from a witness and a prosecution investigator. A woman, now a Sister in the Philadelphia Archdiocese,...

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Key Witness Says Philadelphia Clergy Lied To Hide List of Predator Priests

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A longtime lawyer for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia says a deceased Roman Catholic cardinal and his top aides lied about shredding a key piece of evidence in the...

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Philadelphia Priest Sex Abuse Trial Moves To Defense Phase

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The prosecution has rested in the landmark clergy abuse case that has rocked the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. After eight weeks of often stunning and sad testimony...

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Philadelphia Priest Takes Stand In His Own Defense At Child Sex Abuse Trial

By Tony Hanson and Pat Ciarrocchi PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — There was high drama in a Philadelphia court room today, as one of the defendants in the Philadelphia priest sex abuse case took the stand in his...

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Msgr. Lynn On Bevilacqua’s Policy: Only Diagnosed Pedophiles Were Removed

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – In the clergy child sexual abuse case, Monsignor William Lynn blames the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua for allowing predator priests to remain in ministry. But...

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Msgr. Lynn Takes Witness Stand For Third Day

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Monsignor William Lynn, charged with endangering children by protecting suspected predator priests, is expected back on the witness stand for a third day, today,...

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Jury Deliberations Resume In Clergy Sex Abuse Trial

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Jury deliberations resumed Monday morning in the clergy sexual abuse case. Monsignor William Lynn is charged with endangering children by allowing dangerous priests...

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Day 4 Of Jury Deliberations In Priest Sex Abuse Trial Ends Without Verdict

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia jury has deliberated a fourth day without reaching a verdict in a major clergy-abuse case. Jurors are set to return Thursday after asking many questions this week....

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5:40 The House Oversight Committee voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt after failing to turn over documents related to Fast and Furious. Eric Holder (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty...

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Jury Decision In Philadelphia Child Sex Abuse Case

By Tony Hanson, Walt Hunter PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Philadelphia jury deciding the fates of two priests in the child sex abuse case was preparing to announce its decision this afternoon.   But a...

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Attorney: Victim In Priest Sex Abuse Case ‘Relieved’

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A priest and former lay teacher were taken into custody immediately after a jury convicted them of sexually assaulting the same boy, the same victim who was...

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Judge Defends Church Aide’s Trial, Conviction

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge is defending her decisions in the trial of the first Catholic Church official in the United States to be charged and convicted in the cover-up of the priest abuse scandal....

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Former Phila. Altar Boys Discount Accusation of Sex Abuse by Priest

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The defense began presenting its case today in the trial of a Philadelphia priest accused of sexually assaulting a ten-year-old altar boy in 1997 (see related...

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Phila. Priest Cross-Examined at His Sex Abuse Trial

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — An accused Philadelphia priest took the witness stand today to say he never sexually molested a former altar boy who is now 26 years old. Father Andrew McCormick...

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Prosecutor Vows Retrial After Phila. Priest Sex Abuse Jury Deadlocks

By Tony Hanson PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A mistrial was declared this afternoon in the case of a Philadelphia priest charged with sexually assaulting a ten-year-old altar boy in 1997. The jury reported...

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