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In 2002, at the height of the outcry over the sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests, the Archbishop of New York, Edward M. Egan, issued a letter to be read at Mass. In it, he offered an apology about the church's handling of sex-abuse cases in New York and in Bridgeport, Conn., where he was previously posted....
Now, 10 years later and in retirement, Cardinal Egan has taken back his apology.
In a interview with Connecticut magazine published on the magazine's Web site last week, a surprisingly frank Cardinal Egan said of the apology, "I never should have said that," and added, "I don't think we did anything wrong."
Archbishop Recants Apology for Sex Abuse, Says
Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 9:13 AM EST
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Oh yeah, these are the guys who should be leading public policy debates. /sarc
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#1 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 9:14 AM ESTEGAN: You know, I never had one of these sex abuse cases, either in Bridgeport or here (New York). Not one.... I took care of them one by one. None of them did anything wrong. One of them spent four years in treatment at the Institute of Living in Hartford. I investigated this and at the end I put him in a convent as an assistant chaplain in Danbury. Only once did I not use the Institute of the Living -- I used Johns Hopkins because the man was in Baltimore.
CT Magazine: You mean Laurence Brett (a serial molester who was cycled through eight parishes in the diocese and a family of ten in California before relocating to Maryland, where he was accused of abusing more boys. He was still on the run from the FBI when he died in the Caribbean in 2010).
EGAN: Yep. I sent him to the most expensive place and I did exactlywhat we were told to do. And as a result, not one of them (the accused priests) did a thing out of line....
As a one time resident of Danbury I'm not to pleased to see this piece of scum took a known serial child molester and placed him in a town I lived in instead of handing him over to the police. The fact that he defends these actions make it that much worse.
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