{"id":7022,"date":"2004-07-14T22:47:45","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T22:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/07\/see_no_evil.html"},"modified":"2004-07-14T22:47:45","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T22:47:45","slug":"see_no_evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/07\/see_no_evil.html","title":{"rendered":"See no evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief report from an independent Tuscon paper on a June deposition by retired Tuscon bishop Moreno<\/a><\/p>\n

Moreno is in failing health, preparing to meet his maker. Perhaps that explains why Moreno is now openly admitting his complicity in the Tucson sex-abuse scandal. In an extraordinary June 2 deposition taken by Costa Mesa, Calif.-based attorney John Manly, who’s currently representing alleged sex-abuse victims in Tucson, Moreno acknowledged rumors that have been whispered about by sex-abuse victims for years but had been studiously ignored by Tucson-area Catholics.<\/p>\n

In the course of the two-hour deposition, held in Pima County Superior Court, Moreno acknowledged, among other things, that he’d allowed priests he knew were child molesters to take kids on trips to Disneyland, where priests would then molest them. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brief report from an independent Tuscon paper on a June deposition by retired Tuscon bishop Moreno Moreno is in failing health, preparing to meet his maker. Perhaps that explains why Moreno is now openly admitting his complicity in the Tucson sex-abuse scandal. 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