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  • Archdiocese of New Orleans under investigation for decades-long child sex trafficking coverup

    05/01/2024 2:15:15 PM PDT · by JSM_Liberty · 25 replies
    WBRZ ^ | April 30, 2024 | WBRZ Staff
    Louisiana State Police are investigating the Archdiocese of New Orleans for possible child sex trafficking linked to widespread sexual abuse committed by priests over several decades, WWL reported from a criminal warrant Tuesday. The warrant says that Louisiana State Police are seeking all documents linked to the archdiocese's sexual abuse scandal including letters and emails, as well as priest assignments, transfers and personnel files. State Police are also asking the archdiocese turn over records of all complaints of sexual abuse made to archdiocesan officials and financial records related to the archdiocese's sexual abuse cases and documents that led to priests...
  • FBI Opens Sweeping Probe of Clergy Sex Abuse in New Orleans

    07/03/2022 6:02:56 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 19 replies
    AP ^ | 6/29/22 | Jim Mustian
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them, officials and others familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press. More than a dozen alleged abuse victims have been interviewed this year as part of the probe that’s exploring among other charges whether predator priests can be prosecuted under the Mann Act, a more than century-old, anti-sex trafficking law that prohibits taking anyone across...