Lawyer calls for release of records after priest allegation
Associated PressA lawyer called on Vermont’s Catholic church Wednesday to release all the records about a priest he alleged abused a 9-year-old boy in South Burlington in the 1960s. Boston Attorney Mitchell Garabedian said Wednesday he was planning to file a lawsuit on behalf of the man who said he was abused by Carlin in 1966 or 1967 when he was a 9-year-old altar boy at St. John Vianney Church, South Burlington. “If the diocese does not want to release the secret files voluntarily, we will try to gain access to the secret files through civil litigation,” Garabedian said during a Wednesday news conference. “Those files, if released, will not only probably tell us to some extent of Father Carlin’s abuse of innocent children, but also tell us how the supervisors of Father Carlin turned their backs and hid the truth,” Garabedian said. Retired Burlington reporter Michael Donoghue, a member of the seven-member committee that assembled the 2019 abuse list, said he spent more than two hours going back through the records on Wednesday morning.
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