Study - Four percent of priests accused of abuse since 1950

Friday, February 27, 2004

WASHINGTON -- A national, church-sanctioned study documenting sex abuse by U.S. Roman Catholic clergy found that about 4 percent of clerics have been accused of molesting minors since 1950, a diocese said Thursday.

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