Los Angeles Files Recount Decades of Priests' Abuse: New York Times
The confidential personnel files of 126 clergymen in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles accused of sexual misconduct with children provide a numbing chronicle of 75 years of the church's shame, revealing case after case in which the church was warned of abuse but failed to protect its parishioners.
People watching the scandal since 2000 or earlier have known that Los Angeles has been able to dodge the bullet for years. No longer it seems.
This is only the signal that the documents will be released sometime this week. The worst is yet to come.
Leaked emails published two years ago indicated the efforts they were making to avoid this day.
The Times speculates that the price tag to settle all the oustanding cases would be over $500 million.
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