“In 1995, two individuals alleged sexual abuse by Father Robert Hopkins in the 1970s.” “In 1999, an individual alleged sexual abuse by Father Timothy Murphy in the late 1960s to early 1970s.” “In 2002, an individual alleged sexual abuse in the mid-1970s by Dennis Pecore, who was then a religious brother.”
ON AND ON it goes. These accounts, and several dozen others
like them, now appear on the website of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese
of Baltimore, which recently published a list — or rather, republished
one from 2002 with 14 additional names — of clergy alleged to have
abused children. Similar lists have been published by other dioceses,
which in recent years have taken steps to atone for years of sweeping
such cases under the rug by adopting more forthcoming policies and
providing counseling to victims of abusive priests.
