Abuse survivors and their attorneys in San Francisco are calling for transparency from the Archdiocese after it refused to release a list of priests suspected of sexual abuse. They publicly named living priests, including Reverend Lawrence Finegan, who was accused by Sandra Oldfield of abuse during her teenage years.
Abuse survivors and their attorneys are pressuring the Archdiocese of San Francisco for more transparency. It is the only Roman Catholic diocese in California that has not released an internal list of priests suspected of sexually abusing minors. Blasting Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone for his steadfast refusal to release a list of suspected abusers within the ranks of San Francisco clergy, abuse survivors and their attorneys publicly named living priests who they say abused them for years.
One of the priests, Reverend Lawrence Finegan, was named in a 2022 lawsuit filed by Sandra Oldfield, who alleges she was sexually abused as a teenager by Finegan. Oldfield is named as Jane Doe in the complaint but recently decided to go public with her story in hopes of pressuring the Archdiocese to be more transparent about decades of accusations of sexual abuse by priests. Oldfield was joined by her attorneys, advocates, and other abuse survivors at a Monday press conference in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral, where she and another alleged victim announced they had filed formal complaints with the Vatican demanding Cordileone’s removal as Archbishop. Oldfield said Finegan, 25 years her senior, groomed and initiated a sexual relationship with her when Oldfield was 15 and a member of a youth group at St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Fairfax. The relationship, she said, lasted nine years. “That was grooming,” Oldfield said. “I mean, that was setting me up that whole time for a sexual relationship all throughout my teen years and beyond.” Finegan is alive and was still on the Archdiocese’s published list of priests “approved for ministry” until late last year. Oldfield said he wasn’t removed from ministry until shortly after she shared her story with officials from the Archdiocese in August. The San Francisco Archdiocese currently faces more than 400 recent child sexual abuse lawsuits
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