Sex Abuse Victims Release 'Devastating' Documents

More than 100+ pages of Archdiocesan secret files of Fr. Robert White are being disclosed today.

The documents show at least six times where White admitted to the Archdiocesan officials that he had molested children. Some examples of the knowledge and the concealment shown in the documents include:

"He declared that he had made some serious mistakes, . . ., when alone with some boy overwhelming curiosity over comes him, not very often, sometimes catches himself and does not complete act, goes weeks without falling."

"After Father opened up, he admitted the approach to the boy, saying he had touched his leg, immodest touches, and the boy's passions were aroused. He admitted two such incidents during the spring and summer. Then he admitted the following incidents: once with [redacted]; twice with [redacted]; twice with [redacted], on one of which he does not think his passions were aroused. Asked if this was all, he said there was one other, with [redacted]."

The documents are now being made public as part of a 4.5 million dollar settlement by 12 survivors of White. One of the terms of the settlement was that these survivors would be able to receive and release these documents.

The settlement of the cases was announced yesterday. Overall there were 14 survivors of three different priests that settled their cases. The molesting priests were Harold White, Leonard Abercrombie, and Lawrence St. Peter. The Denver Post story on the settlements can be found at http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9758609.

The cases settled for 4.5 million dollars.

St. Paul Attorney Jeffrey Anderson represented the 12 survivors in these cases. "My sincere gratitude and respect goes out to these survivors who stood up and spoke out. If it wasn't for their courage these documents and the Archdiocese's secrets would have never been exposed."

Attorney Anderson has represented thousands of survivors and brought cases against every Diocese inthe United States over the last 25 plus years. He said that, "these documents are some of the worst I have ever seen -- they show that the Archdiocese chose to save face instead of saving children."

"This settlement and the release of these documents signals a new day for this Archdiocese and those courageous survivors," said Anderson at the Denver news conference on July 1.

The documents are posted at http://www.andersonadvocates.com/

SOURCE Jeff Anderson & Assoc.

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