Six men claim bishop worked to cover up abusive priest. The diocese of Portland, Maine is being sued over allegations that a former bishop covered up a sex abuse scandal.
In seperate civil complaints filed in November, six men claim they were sexually abused by Fr. James Vallely, a Portland diocesen priest, between 1958 and 1977 and that the bishop worked to protect the abusive pastor.
http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/diocese-of-portland-sued-in-decades-old-abuse-case
