bob&carole wrote:
> > Catholic Church asks Foley to name alleged molester
> > By Kathleen Chapman
> >
> > Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
> >
> > Wednesday, October 11, 2006
> >
> > The Catholic Church has sent a formal letter asking Mark Foley's
> > attorney to name the clergyman who allegedly abused the former
> > congressman and report the crime to law enforcement.
> >
> > Foley's attorney David Roth said during an Oct. 3 news conference that
> > a clergyman molested Foley when he was between the ages of 13 and 15,
> > but did not identify the person, church or religious denomination.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Until such time as you identify the alleged perpetrator," Church
> > attorney J. Patrick Fitzgerald wrote in an Oct. 5 letter to Roth, "all
> > clergy that served in Palm Beach County have been needlessly placed
> > under suspicion."
> >
> > Foley, whose behavior with underage pages in the House of
> > Representatives caused national scandal, grew up in a devout Catholic
> > family.
> >
> > He served as an altar boy at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Lake Worth
> > and attended Catholic high school at Cardinal Newman for his freshman
> > year in 1969-70.
> >
> > The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, which oversaw Palm Beach
> > parishes in the 1960s, and the Diocese of Palm Beach have said they
> > cannot investigate Foley's charge until they have a name.
> >
> > A church policy adopted nationwide in 2002, called the Charter for the
> > Protection of Children and Young People, encourages victims of child
> > abuse to "come forward, identify the alleged perpetrator and report the
> > abuse to the proper criminal authority," Fitzgerald wrote in the
> > letter.
> >
> > The Diocese of Palm Beach has not received an answer to its letter, a
> > spokeswoman said.
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