The group claims the 'thousands of pages' of documents include evidence of diocese policies meant to destroy evidence of abuse, fraud
A survivor advocacy group says they’re turning over "thousands of pages" of documents to the state attorney general’s office related to the cover up of sexual abuse by leaders of the Catholic Church in Wisconsin.
Leaders of Nate’s Mission, a Wisconsin-based project of the national group Ending Clergy Abuse, delivered the documents to Attorney General Josh Kaul’s office on Tuesday.
The group says the new documents include personnel files, insurance paperwork and internal lists of accused priests that contain "almost twice as many names as those released to the general public." The group also says they have minutes from meetings where church leaders discussed "tactics and strategies to evade prosecution and transfer credibly accused clergy to new parishes."
Kaul launched a statewide inquiry into abuse by clergy and faith leaders in Wisconsin last April. As of October, the state Department of Justice had received nearly 180 reports of abuse by faith leaders or of mishandling of abuse claims by religious organizations.
The inquiry has been hindered by some Catholic dioceses not wanting to participate, with some leaders saying past cases of sexual abuse have already been reviewed by legal authorities.
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