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Posted: Sat 7:10 AM, Feb 11, 2012
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Updated: Sat 9:23 AM, Feb 11, 2012

Sex Abuse Case In Milwaukee Dropped Against Vatican Officials

Posted Saturday, February 11, 2012 --- 7:10 a.m.

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Milwaukee school for the deaf have asked a court to dismiss their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants.

Attorney Jeff Anderson had filed the lawsuit at the peak of a European explosion of the sex abuse scandal in 2010, alleging that the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and his deputies knew about allegations of sexual abuse at St. John's School for the Deaf and prevented internal punishment of the accused priest, the late Rev. Lawrence Murphy.

The Vatican rejected the lawsuit then as a publicity stunt.

Copyright 2012. The Associated Press.

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  • by anon Location: Middleton on Feb 11, 2012 at 04:05 PM
    Of course it is, what did you expect!
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  • by JEdward Location: Dane County on Feb 11, 2012 at 12:34 PM
    another cover up for the chuild molesting priest. They get away with every thing.
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  • by ole Location: stoughton on Feb 11, 2012 at 12:34 PM
    need to take these pedophiles and put them in jail and put them on sexual predator list for life so they can never be priest any where again and pretend they are helping god when they are doing the will of the devil. this is why we need to stop listening to people who say there needs to be a separation of church and state. if we don't punish them they there religion is being put on a pedestal and above other religions or non religions. we need to not allow religions to be used as scape goats for these peds, and if you let it happen you are just as guilty!
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