LOS ANGELES – A victims’ advocacy group called on California’s 12 bishops Sunday to offer rewards for information about Roman Catholic priests who commit sexual abuse.
The rewards would signal the church’s commitment to stopping child sex abuse after last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could result in the dismissal of hundreds of California molestation cases, said David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests.
The proposal, detailed in a letter to Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, asks church leaders to help establish a fund supporting payments for information that leads to the successful conviction of priests who have abused children.
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