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April
ARCHBISHOP ADMITS TRANSFERRING PRIEST (Unsealed records reveal Milwaukee sex ause case)
According to documents, which were unsealed this month, the Rev. William Effinger admitted to Archbishop Rembert Weakland in 1979 that he had molested at 13-year-old altar boy on Easter that year. The archbishop, who established a model program for handling sexual abuse by clergy transferred the priest who was a known sex offender from one parish to another in 1979 and did not remove him until 1992. Weakland, who heads the Milwaukee’s Roman Catholic archdiocese, said in a sworn deposition that he didn’t think it should be divulged to the