21
May
LA DIOCESE FACES RICO SUIT (Suit says cover-up of alleged sexual abuse a criminal act)
Cardinal Roger Mahony has admitted keeping secret a case of sexual abuse of a child by a priest who continued to molest children for another 14 years. Rev. Michael Baker had confessed to him personally in 1986 about problems in the past of acting out sexually with minors. In a letter dated May 14 to about 1,200 priests in the Los Angeles archdiocese, Mahony wrote that after counseling and treatment of Baker in 1986, he assigned Baker to a number of different parishes until 2000, when the archdiocese was sued