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Article: 'Fully compliant' doesn't equal accountability.(Editorials)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 4, 2005
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Catholics should be grateful for the release of the 2004 Annual Report on implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. Combined with last year's report, the 2004 John Jay College of Criminal Justice study on the "scope of the crisis," and the so-called Bennett Report on its causes, the survey of diocesan child-protection programs released Feb. 18 sheds additional light on diocesan efforts to combat sex abuse.
It is a good thing it does, given that more than 1,000 allegations of sex abuse by priests and deacons were made last year, according to data gathered by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate that was included in ...