Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced his office is investigating the Catholic Church for alleged child sex abuse.
Three dioceses of the Catholic Church are at the center of the civil investigation. stated the Attorney General’s Office may have subpoenaed three Catholic Church bishops in Washington last August. The organization believed the Attorney General’s Office was seeking “abuse-related documents and evidence.”
“If this is true, Bob Ferguson has joined 23 other state attorneys general, both Democrats and Republicans, in investigating sexual abuse in faith-based organizations since 2018,” Tim Law, a Catholic Accountability Project founding member, toldAccording to Law, the subpoenas were sent to bishops in Yakima, Spokane and Seattle and that some of the accusations against some of the bishops date back as far as the 1960s.
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