Washington's attorney general says the Seattle Archdiocese isn't cooperating in a sex abuse investigation, but church officials disagree
The Catholic church is refusing to cooperate with a Washington state investigation into whether it unlawfully used charitable trust funds to cover up sexual abuse by priests, Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Thursday, asking a court to force the Seattle Archdiocese to turn over decades of records. The archdiocese called the allegations a surprise, saying in a statement that it welcomed the investigation and has been collaborating since receiving a subpoena last July.
But in a scathing report last year, the Illinois attorney general's office said it had uncovered detailed information on 451 who had sexually abused at least 1,997 children. Similarly, Maryland last year reported staggering evidence of just how widespread the abuse was: More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused over 600 children and often escaped accountability.
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