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A case filed today in Philadelphia by our office, as well as attorneys Dan Monahan and Marci Hamilton, is brought on behalf of a courageous survivor who was sexually abused as a child.  The suit names ten defendants, including the Archdiocese and Archdiocesan officials, alleging a conspiracy to endanger children by actively concealing sexually abusive priests, and continuing the priests in ministry despite known credible allegations of child abuse.

In Philadelphia, three priests and a parochial school teacher are being charged for sexually abusing two children and the Secretary for Clergy for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is being charged for endangering the welfare of children by knowingly allowing dangerous priests to continue in ministry roles where they had access to children.

That is exactly what the Vatican stated when it was faced with accepting service of Terry Kohut’s lawsuit relating to the sexual abuse of hundreds of boys  by Fr. Lawrence Murphy at the St. John’s School for the Deaf in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.   According to a document filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Vatican accepted service of the legal documents involved with the lawsuit and then, four days later, the Vatican contacted FedEx and asked FedEx to retrieve the package because the package was “undesired and unwanted.”