Investigation finds Colorado Catholic priests allegedly abused at least 166 children over decades
The report found that the majority of the incidents took place in the 1960s and the 1970s. The most recent allegations in the document involve a Denver priest who was accused in 1998 of sexually abusing four children, according to CNN.
Forty-three priests in total are accused of sexually abusing children, according to a Denver CBS affiliate.
"This is a dark and painful history," Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser told reporters, according to CNN. "The culture going back decades was one where there was a reluctance to acknowledge and address wrongdoing."
One of the priests accused in the report, Father Harold Robert White, allegedly abused at least 63 children over 21 years. He is called the "most prolific known clergy child sex abuser in Colorado history."
White served in six parishes beginning in 1960, until he was removed from the ministry in 1993. He was never placed on any restrictions, and he never underwent an investigation or received a psychiatric evaluation.
"When he had sexually abused enough children at a parish that scandal threatened to erupt, the Denver Archdiocese moved him to a new one geographically distant enough that White was not known there," the report states, CNN reported.
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The report found that the majority of the incidents took place in the 1960s and the 1970s. The most recent allegations in the document involve a Denver priest who was accused in 1998 of sexually abusing four children, according to CNN.
Forty-three priests in total are accused of sexually abusing children, according to a Denver CBS affiliate.
"This is a dark and painful history," Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser told reporters, according to CNN. "The culture going back decades was one where there was a reluctance to acknowledge and address wrongdoing."
One of the priests accused in the report, Father Harold Robert White, allegedly abused at least 63 children over 21 years. He is called the "most prolific known clergy child sex abuser in Colorado history."
White served in six parishes beginning in 1960, until he was removed from the ministry in 1993. He was never placed on any restrictions, and he never underwent an investigation or received a psychiatric evaluation.
"When he had sexually abused enough children at a parish that scandal threatened to erupt, the Denver Archdiocese moved him to a new one geographically distant enough that White was not known there," the report states, CNN reported.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-...dly-abused
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"