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US Supreme Court says child sex documents must be shown
Myanmar News.Net
Monday 2nd November, 2009
The US Supreme Court has refused to review a case in which the Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, were told to release documents on priest-child sexual abuse.
The Connecticut Supreme Court had earlier ruled that the documents, which purportedly detail abuse investigations within the church of six priests, should be unsealed.
Monday's action followed an earlier refusal by the US Supreme Court to issue a stay in the case.
Church lawyers invoked constitutional issues, including First Amendment rights of religious organisations, in their argument to the Supreme Court.
But survivor's advocates have welcomed the ruling, saying the public needs to know if the church was aware of child sex crimes in Bridgeport.  Email this story to a friend
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