Diocese: Abuse allegations against deceased priest are 'credible'

Friday, January 4, 2013

A Catholic priest who's been dead for decades has been accused of sexually abusing a child at a Southeast Missouri parish he served in the mid-1960s, the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau has disclosed.

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